worldsteel published December 2011 and full-year 2011 world crude steel production on Monday.
Looking at the monthly results, December production increased 1.5% over November to 117 million metric tonnes, though daily production declined 1.8%. China, the US, Russia and Turkey each showed significantly higher production while France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Japan all showed declines.
On a yearly basis, world crude production rose 6.8% to 1,527 million tonnes. 60% of this rise (or 58 million tonnes) can be attributed to China. Other countries that increased production strongly in 2011 were South Korea, India, the U.S., Turkey, Taiwan and Italy.
As usual, all the data for 2011 (and for a number of prior years) is shared in the Nerds spreadsheet below.