September world crude steel production 141.4M tonnes

by Jessica Wagner on October 24, 2017

in Data

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.


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