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Like you, 84 percent of people didn't know the scale of China's dominance.

Graphite and dysprosium are just two of the materials that are becoming more important as the world transitions to cleaner forms of energy. The share of those two that are processed in China helps demonstrate its status as the global leader when it comes to the mining and refining of critical materials needed for electric vehicles, wind turbines and batteries. Source: <a target="_blank" href="https://mc-cd8320d4-36a1-40ac-83cc-3389-cdn-endpoint.azureedge.net/-/media/Files/IRENA/Agency/Publication/2023/Jul/IRENA_Geopolitics_energy_transition_critical_materials_2023.pdf?rev=f289d177cda14b9aaf2d1b4c074798b4">International Renewable Energy Agency</a>

But 84 percent of people didn't know the scale of China's dominance.

Every country needs to swap fossil fuels for renewable energy, which is perhaps why people wouldn't expect one nation to have such a stranglehold over the materials that are going to be increasingly important. China has a head start on every country, including the United States, in part because of the relationships it has built with countries in Africa where important metals and minerals are mined. Read more at <a target='_blank' href=https://upgrader.gapminder.org/q/1700>Gapminder.</a>

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Graphite is used in electric-vehicle batteries and dysprosium is used in electric-vehicle motors. What share of those materials is processed in China?