New figures from the World Steel Association show a further 10% drop in global crude steel output in November compared to October. Overall the first 11 months of 2008 are slightly above output in 2007, but if output is flat in December (which seems likely at best) then we 2008 is heading towards being about 2.5% below 2007 crude steel output. That would be the first year on year decline since 1997 to 1998.
The data is available from worldsteel above or in a Nerds of Steel spreadsheet below.