List of countries by steel production

This article summarizes the world steel production by country. For the company-oriented account, see List of steel producers.

In 2010, total world crude steel production was 1,413.6 million metric tonnes (mmt). The biggest steel producing country is currently China, which accounted for 44.3% of world steel production in 2010. In 2008 and 2009, output fell in the majority of steel producing countries as a result of the global recession, in 2010 started to rise again.

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Countries

This is a list of countries by steel production from 2007 to 2010, based on data provided by the World Steel Association.[1][2]

Crude steel production (million tonnes):
Rank Country/Region 2007 2008 2009 2010
—  World 1,351.3 1326.5 1,219.7 1,413.6
1 People's Republic of China 494.9 500.3 573.6 626.7
— European Union 209.7 198.0 139.1 172.9
2 Japan 120.2 118.7 87.5 109.6
3 United States 98.1 91.4 58.2 80.6
4 Russia 72.4 68.5 60.0 67.0
5 India 53.5 57.8 62.8 66.8
6 South Korea 51.5 53.6 48.6 58.5
7 Germany 48.6 45.8 32.7 43.8
8 Ukraine 42.8 37.3 29.9 33.6
9 Brazil 33.8 33.7 26.5 32.8
10 Turkey 25.8 26.8 25.3 29.0
11 Italy 31.6 30.6 19.7 25.8
12 Taiwan 20.9 19.9 15.7 19.6
13 Mexico 17.6 17.2 14.2 17.0
14 Spain 19.0 18.6 14.3 16.3
15 France 19.3 17.9 12.8 15.4
16 Canada 15.6 14.8 9.0 13.0
17 Iran 10.1 10.0 10.9 12.0
18 United Kingdom 14.3 13.5 10.1 9.7
19 South Africa 9.1 8.3 7.5 8.5
20 Belgium 10.7 10.7 5.6 8.1
21 Poland 10.6 9.7 7.2 8.0
22 Australia 7.9 7.6 5.2 7.3
23 Austria 7.6 7.6 5.7 7.2
24 Egypt 6.2 6.2 5.5 6.7
25 Netherlands 7.4 6.8 5.2 6.7
26 Czech Republic 7.1 6.4 4.6 5.2
27 Argentina 5.4 5.5 4.0 5.1
28 Saudi Arabia 4.6 4.7 4.7 5.0
29 Sweden 5.7 5.2 2.8 4.8
30 Slovakia 5.1 4.5 3.7 4.6
31 Kazakhstan 4.8 4.3 4.1 4.3
32 Malaysia 6.9 6.4 4.0 4.1
33 Finland 4.4 4.4 3.1 4.0
34 Romania 6.3 5.0 2.7 3.9
35 Thailand 5.6 5.2 3.6 3.7
36 Indonesia 4.2 3.9 3.5 3.6
37 Vietnam 2.3 2.7 2.7 2.7
38 Luxembourg 2.9 2.6 2.2 2.6
39 Belarus 2.4 2.6 2.4 2.5
40 Venezuela 5.0 4.2 3.8 2.2
—  Others[3] 29.8 (est.) 28.3 (est.) 23.3 (est.) 25.6 (est.)

Exports

Top steel exporter in 2008
Rank Country Volume
1 China 56.3
2 Japan 36.9
3 Ukraine 28.6
4 Germany 28.6
5 Russia 28.4
6 Belgium 21.2
7 South Korea 19.7
8 Turkey 18.5
9 Italy 18.0
10 France 17.1
11 United States 11.9
12 Taiwan 10.0
13 Netherlands 10.0
14 Portugal 9.4
15 Brazil 9.1
Top steel net exporter in 2006[4]
Rank Country Volume
1 China 32.6
2 Japan 30.1
3 Ukraine 29.1
4 Russia 25.6
5 Brazil 10.7
6 Belgium 7.6
7 Germany 4.9
8 Slovakia 2.7
9 South Africa 2.6
10 Austria 2.6
11 Finland 2.3
12 Netherlands 2.0
13 France 1.9
14 Kazakhstan 1.3
15 India 1.2

See also

References

  1. ^ World Steel Association World Crude Steel Production 2009
  2. ^ World Crude Steel Production 2010
  3. ^ composition of other countries vary year to year, thus is not comparable
  4. ^ 2008 World top 20 steel exporting countries in 2006. Steel Guru.

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