Global crude steel output down 0.9% y/y in 2020
Global crude steel production decreased by 0.9% year-on-year to 1.86-billion tonnes for 2020, industry association the World Steel Association (worldsteel) reports.
South Africa produced 3.9-million tonnes of crude steel, a significant decrease from the 6.2-million tonnes produced in 2019.
Asia, meanwhile, produced 1.37-billion tonnes of steel, an increase of 1.5% compared with 2019, with China's output up 5.2% year-on-year to 1.05-billion tonnes. China’s share of global crude steel production increased from 53.3% in 2019 to 56.5% in 2020.
India’s crude steel production was 99.6-million tonnes, down 10.6% year-on-year.
Japan produced 83.2-million tonnes, a 16.2% year-on-year decrease, while South Korea's output fell by 6% year-on-year to 67.1-million tonnes.
The European Union produced 138.8-million tonnes of crude steel in 2020, a decrease of 11.8% compared with that of 2019. Germany produced 35.7-million tonnes of steel − a 10% year-on-year decrease.
In the Commonwealth of Independent States, production was up 1.5% year-on-year to 102-million tonnes.
Russia is estimated to have produced 73.4-million tonnes, up 2.6% compared with 2019, while Ukraine produced 20.6-million tonnes, down 1.1% year-on-year.
Crude steel production in North America was 101.1-million tonnes in 2020, down 15.5% year-on-year. The US produced 72.7-million tonnes − a 17.2% year-on-year decrease.
The Middle East produced 45.4-million tonnes of crude steel, an increase of 2.5% year-on-year.
Yearly crude steel production for South America was 38.2-million tonnes, a decrease of 8.4% compared with that of 2019.
Comments
Research Reports
Projects
Latest Multimedia
Latest News
Showroom
Immersive Technologies is the world's largest, proven and tested supplier of simulator training solutions to the global resources industry.
VISIT SHOWROOM
FlameBlock is a proudly South African company that engineers, manufactures and supplies fire intumescent and retardant products to the fire...
VISIT SHOWROOM
Announcements
What's On
Subscribe to improve your user experience...
Option 1 (equivalent of R125 a month):
Receive a weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine
(print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
Receive daily email newsletters
Access to full search results
Access archive of magazine back copies
Access to Projects in Progress
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
Option 2 (equivalent of R375 a month):
All benefits from Option 1
PLUS
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports, in PDF format, on various industrial and mining sectors
including Electricity; Water; Energy Transition; Hydrogen; Roads, Rail and Ports; Coal; Gold; Platinum; Battery Metals; etc.
Already a subscriber?
Forgotten your password?
Receive weekly copy of Creamer Media's Engineering News & Mining Weekly magazine (print copy for those in South Africa and e-magazine for those outside of South Africa)
➕
Recieve daily email newsletters
➕
Access to full search results
➕
Access archive of magazine back copies
➕
Access to Projects in Progress
➕
Access to ONE Research Report of your choice in PDF format
RESEARCH CHANNEL AFRICA
R4500 (equivalent of R375 a month)
SUBSCRIBEAll benefits from Option 1
➕
Access to Creamer Media's Research Channel Africa for ALL Research Reports on various industrial and mining sectors, in PDF format, including on:
Electricity
➕
Water
➕
Energy Transition
➕
Hydrogen
➕
Roads, Rail and Ports
➕
Coal
➕
Gold
➕
Platinum
➕
Battery Metals
➕
etc.
Receive all benefits from Option 1 or Option 2 delivered to numerous people at your company
➕
Multiple User names and Passwords for simultaneous log-ins
➕
Intranet integration access to all in your organisation
