May world crude steel production 143.3M tonnes

by Jessica Wagner on June 21, 2017

in Data

Worldsteel published May’s world crude steel production yesterday. World crude steel output was 143.3 million metric tonnes, 2.0% higher than in May 2016. World production for the first five months of 2017 was 4.5% higher than in the same period last year.

China accounted for half of world output in May with production of 72.3 million tonnes, 1.8% higher than in May 2016. In non-China Asia, production increased significantly in India (+6.4%) and Vietnam (+96.6%). European Union crude production rose 2.0% compared to last May, with strong gains in Poland (+39.4%) and France (+21.5%), though production in the United Kingdom fell (-16.1%). In the Americas, Brazilian output rose 13.2% year-on-year, and US production was up 0.2%. Other changes to note include a 9.7% increase in output in Turkey and 25.5% drop in output in the Ukraine.

All the data for May 2017 and for a number of prior years can be found in the downloadable spreadsheet below.


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