June world crude steel production 141.0M tonnes

by Jessica Wagner on July 24, 2017

in Data

Worldsteel published June’s world crude steel production on July 20th. World crude steel output was 141.0 million metric tonnes, 3.2% higher than in June 2016. World production for the first six months of 2017 was 4.3% higher than in the same period last year.

China accounted for 52% of world output in June with production of 73.2 million tonnes, 5.7% higher than in June 2016. Also in Asia, South Korean output rose 7.7%, production in Vietnam was up 54.3%, but Japanese crude output fell 4.3%. European Union production rose by 3.9% compared to last June, led by a 32.3% increase in the United Kingdom and a 22.3% rise in Poland. Further to the east, Turkish output rose 7.1%, Iranian output was up 16.4%, while production fell in Russia (-8.0%) and Ukraine (-13.0%). And in the Americas, output fell in the US (-1.7%) but rose in Mexico (+1.0) and Brazil (+4.0%).

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


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