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The 10 largest steel producing countries

26 septembre 2019

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Steel is a basic product in our daily lives and is essential for economic growth. Like to know more about it and find out who uses it and which country produces the most steel in the world?

Here is a list of the 10 biggest steel-producing countries in 2017:

China: 831,728,000 tonnes
Japan: 104,661,000 tonnes
India: 101,455,000 tonnes
United States: 81,612,000 tonnes
Russia: 71,491,000 tonnes
South Korea: 71,030,000 tonnes
Germany: 43,297,000 tonnes
Turkey: 37,524,000 tonnes
Brazil: 34,365,000 tonnes
Italy: 24,068,000 tonnes

As you can see, China very much dominates the world’s steel production. These numbers and the following graphs are from Worldsteel.

Steel production worldwide in 2017 (vs. 2007)

In 2014, we were told that China doubled its production in the space of 10 years, going from about 25% to 50% of total world production. With the statistics from 2017, we can see China’s growing importance in the production of steel and that it is the leader!

Worldsteel’s infographics also shows the growing evolution of crude steel production since 1950:

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