World Crude Steel Production 129.7 million tonnes in July

by Jessica Wagner on August 22, 2012

in Data

Worldsteel published July’s global crude steel production on August 21st. World crude production was 129.7 million tonnes, 1.8% higher than in July 2011 for the 62 countries reporting. But the theme of continuing global drift is maintained. Average daily production declined by 1.6% between June and July.

China’s production rose from 60.2 million tonnes in June to 61.7 million tonnes in July, but that was a decrease in average daily production of 0.8%. Other countries that showed month-to-month increases of about 200K tonnes or more include Brazil, India, Turkey and the US. Counteracting that growth was Europe. Spain, Sweden and Germany each dropped production by about 200k tonnes or more.

As usual, all the data for July 2012 (and for a number of prior years) is generously shared in the Nerds spreadsheet below.