China continues to be the world's largest steel producer for a year, followed by Japan and India in second and third places. Global production totaled 1.604 billion tonnes throughout 2016, an increase of 0.7% over the previous year.
The World Steel Association (Worldsteel) has released a list of the best steel producing countries in 2016.
China's steel output increased 1.2% to 808.40 million tonnes in 2016. In second place was Japan with a production of 104.8 million tons. The country's output was down 0.3% over the previous year. India was the third largest steel producer during 2016. The country's output increased by 7.4% to 95.6 million tons in 2016.
Top ten countries in the world in terms of total steel production during 2016, in thousands of tons:
1.China 808.4
2.Japan 104.8
3. India 95.6
4.US 78.6
5.Russia 70.8
6.South Korea 68.6
7.Germany 42.1
8.Turkey 33.2
9. Brazil 30.2
10.Ukraine 24.2
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