Critical minerals investment growth rate
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-9%
Global · 2025
Critical minerals investment growth rate worldwide came in at -9% in 2025 (IEA).
- Publisher
- IEA
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Locator
- IEA Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2026 report findings
- Retrieved
- 16 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Price volatility and geopolitical tensions have weighed on investment, which fell by 9% in 2025, ending several consecutive years of growth.
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- APA
- International Energy Agency. (2025). Supply concentration, export restrictions and declining investment put critical mineral security at risk. Retrieved September 16, 2026, from https://www.iea.org/news/supply-concentration-export-restrictions-and-declining-investment-put-critical-mineral-security-at-risk. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_SWX8MBDETYXK2V0380XQPXQSXV
- MLA
- International Energy Agency. "Supply concentration, export restrictions and declining investment put critical mineral security at risk." 2025, https://www.iea.org/news/supply-concentration-export-restrictions-and-declining-investment-put-critical-mineral-security-at-risk. Accessed 16 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_SWX8MBDETYXK2V0380XQPXQSXV.
- Chicago
- International Energy Agency. "Supply concentration, export restrictions and declining investment put critical mineral security at risk." 2025. https://www.iea.org/news/supply-concentration-export-restrictions-and-declining-investment-put-critical-mineral-security-at-risk. Accessed September 16, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_SWX8MBDETYXK2V0380XQPXQSXV.
- BibTeX
- @misc{iea2025criticalpxqsxv, author = {{International Energy Agency}}, title = {Supply concentration, export restrictions and declining investment put critical mineral security at risk}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_SWX8MBDETYXK2V0380XQPXQSXV}, note = {Original source: https://www.iea.org/news/supply-concentration-export-restrictions-and-declining-investment-put-critical-mineral-security-at-risk. Accessed September 16, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- International Energy Agency · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- Supply concentration, export restrictions and declining investment put critical mineral security at risk
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- IEA Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2026 report findings
- Retrieved
- 16 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 17 September 2026
- Last revision
- 17 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_SWX8MBDETYXK2V0380XQPXQSXV