Worldsteel published September’s world crude steel production yesterday. World crude steel output was 141.4 million metric tonnes, 5.6% higher than in September 2016. World production for the first nine months of 2017 was 5.3% higher than in the same period last year.
China accounted for 51% of world output in September with production of 71.8 million tonnes, 5.3% higher than in September 2016. Production also rose in other Asian countries including Taiwan (+12.3%), Japan (+2.0%), South Korea (+2.8%), India (+1.9%) and Vietnam (+33.8%). In the Americas, US output increased 8.6% compared to last September and Brazilian output rose 7.6%. Crude production in the European Union rose 2.7%, with strong increases from Germany (+8.1%) and Italy (+8.3%). And in other parts of Europe and the Middle East, Turkish production rose 13.0%, Russian output gained 5.8% and Iranian output increased 40.4%.
All the data for September 2017 and for a number of prior years can be found in the Nerds spreadsheet below.