Brussels – World crude steel production reached 1,220 million metric tons for the year of 2009. This is a decrease of -8.0 percent compared to 2008. Steel production declined in nearly all the major steel producing countries and regions including the EU, North America, South America and the CIS in 2009. However, Asia, in particular China and India, and the Middle East showed positive growth in 2009.

In December 2009, world crude steel output for the 66 countries reporting the World Steel Association (worldsteel) was 106.4 mmt, an increase of 30.2 percent compared to December 2008. Most major-steel producing countries showed two-digit growth in December 2009. The world crude steel capacity utilisation ratio of the 66 countries in December 2009 was 71.5 percent, a decrease from 74.7 percent in November 2009. Compared to 2008, the utilisation ratio in December 2009 increased by 13.4 percentage points.

China’s crude steel production in 2009 reached 567.8 mmt, an increase of 13.5 percent on 2008. This is a record annual crude steel production figure for a single country. China’s share of world steel production continued to grow in 2009 producing 47 percent of world total crude steel, an increase of 9 percentage points compared to 2008.

Asia produced 795.4 mmt of crude steel in 2009, an increase of 3.5 percent compared to 2008. Its share of world steel production increased to 65 percent in 2009 from 58 percent in 2008. Japan produced 87.5 mmt in 2008, a decrease of -26.3 percent on 2008. India’s crude steel production was 56.6 mmt in 2009, 2.8 percent growth on 2008. South Korea showed a decrease of -9.4 percent, producing 48.6 mmt in 2009.

The EU-27 where all major steel producing countries including Germany, Italy and France showed substantial decline recorded a decrease of -29.7 percent compared to 2008, producing 139.1 mmt of crude steel in 2009.

In 2009, crude steel production in North America was 82.3 mmt, a decrease of -33.9 percent on 2008. The US produced 58.1 mmt of crude steel, 36.4 percent lower than 2008.

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS, formerly the USSR) showed a decrease of -14.7 percent in 2009. Russia produced 59.9 mmt of crude steel, a -12.5 percent reduction on 2008 while Ukraine recorded a decrease of -20.2 percent with year-end figures of 29.8 mmt.

The crude steel statistics 2009 per month and nation can be downloaded at
worldsteel.org(1), graphs and figures under worldsteel.org(2).

Quelle: Worldsteel association

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