List of countries by steel production

Steel production in 2007

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.

Countries

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

Crude steel production (million tonnes):

Rank	Country/Region	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
—	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	695.5
—	European Union	209.7	198.0	139.1	172.9
2	Japan	120.2	118.7	87.5	109.6	107.6
3	United States	98.1	91.4	58.2	80.6	86.2
4	India	53.5	57.8	62.8	68.3	72.2
5	Russia	72.4	68.5	60.0	66.9	68.7
6	South Korea	51.5	53.6	48.6	58.5	68.5
7	Germany	48.6	45.8	32.7	43.8	44.3
8	Ukraine	42.8	37.3	29.9	33.6	35.3
9	Brazil	33.8	33.7	26.5	32.8	35.2
10	Turkey	25.8	26.8	25.3	29.0	34.1
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	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

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

• Steel industry
• Global steel industry trends
• List of steel producers
• World economy

External links

• World Steel Association
• American Iron and Steel Institute