Helium Demand30 Nov 2025 13:17
I asked Perplexity - To summarise helium production and consumption as a percentage of global demand. Interesting to know...
"Helium is a small market by volume but strategically critical, and its production and consumption are tightly balanced at close to 100% of global demand each year.
Current global capacity is estimated at roughly 175 million cubic meters annually, with actual output typically running very close to that level, leaving little spare capacity and making price spikes common when there are outages.
On the supply side, the United States, Qatar and Algeria together provide a majority of global helium production, with the U.S. alone often accounting for around one‑third of world output and also acting as a major consumer. Smaller but important contributions come from Russia and other producers such as Canada, which collectively make up the remaining share and are increasingly viewed as diversification plays. On the demand side, consumption is highly concentrated in a few sectors rather than evenly spread across industry. Semiconductor manufacturing is now the single largest end‑use, responsible for about 24% of global helium demand and projected to exceed 30% by 2030. Medical cryogenics (especially MRI scanners), aerospace, research, and industrial applications share most of the remaining demand, each typically in the high single‑digit to low‑teens percentage range depending on the breakdown used. Regionally, demand maps onto advanced technology and healthcare hubs: Asia (driven by chip fabs in China, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan) and the United States together account for well over half of global helium consumption, with Europe and the rest of the world making up the balance."
Due to Tanzania's location, I would guess the helium extracted would make its supply route across to South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, India, and Veitnam as these are in relative close proximity. Non of these counties are trying to take over the world, unlike China, so are also Western friendly.
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