March world crude steel production 138.0M tonnes

by Jessica Wagner on April 22, 2015

in Data

Worldsteel published March’s world crude steel production on April 21st. World crude steel production was 138.0 million metric tonnes, 2.6% lower than in March 2014. World output for the first quarter of 2015 was 1.4% lower than in the same period last year.

China accounted for 50% of world crude steel production in March with output of 69.5 million tonnes, down 1.1% compared to March 2014. Elsewhere in Asia, Japanese production fell March 2014 to March 2015 by 4.5% and South Korean production fell by 11.0%, while Indian output was up 10.0%. In the Americas, US output fell 12.7% and Brazilian production was down 7.4%. In the CIS region, production fell in the Ukraine by 35.6% and was up 0.2% in Russia. And finally, European Union crude production fell 0.9%, mainly due to lower output in Italy and Germany, and despite a significant climb in Poland.

All the data for March 2015 and for a number of prior years can be found in the Nerds spreadsheet below.