In 2021, Australia produced by far the most lithium (55,000 tons), followed by Chile (26,000 tons) and China (14,000 tons). Interestingly, Bolivia has the largest lithium resource of all (21 million tons), followed by Argentina (19 million tons) and Chile (9.8 million tons). These numbers were taken from the Mineral Commodity Summaries 2022 (PDF), published by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Geological Survey.