2010 World Crude Steel production tops 1.4 billion tonnes

by James Moss on January 25, 2011

in Data

worldsteel published December 2010’s crude steel production data last Friday. As expected, the global steel industry achieved record crude steel production of 1,414 million tonnes beating the previous record set in 2007 by 68MT or 5% – about equivalent to Russia’s entire annual output. And as Peter Marsh points out in an article in the Financial Times, producers collectively racked up the biggest single year of production growth since the 1950’s. (Of course that’s easier to do when you’ve suffered one of the worst declines in output the previous year).

We haven’t had a chance to reconcile all the data for December (and it’s likely to change anyway) but it’s in the Nerds spreadsheet which now has an annual summary added for the years back to 2004 by major region. I’ll link you to that sheet so you know where it is in future. Enjoy.