Top Steel Producers | 1968 - 2021 ⛓️📊

This data visualization and bar chart race ranks the top steel exporters by country, categorized by the following regions: Asia, North America, South America, MENA (Middle East and North Africa), Africa, Oceania, and Europe.

Steel is an alloy made up of iron with typically a few tenths of a percent of carbon to improve its strength and fracture resistance compared to iron. Many other elements may be present or added. Stainless steels that are corrosion- and oxidation-resistant need typically an additional 11% chromium. Because of its high tensile strength and low cost, steel is used in buildings, infrastructure, tools, ships, trains, cars, machines, electrical appliances, and weapons. Iron is the base metal of steel. Depending on the temperature, it can take two crystalline forms (allotropic forms): body-centered cubic and face-centered cubic. The interaction of the allotropes of iron with the alloying elements, primarily carbon, gives steel and cast iron their range of unique properties.

In 2019, total world crude steel production was 1869.9 million tonnes (Mt). The biggest steel producing country is currently China, which accounted for 53.3% of world steel production in 2019. In 2020, China became the first country to produce over one billion tons of steel. In 2008, 2009, 2015 and 2016 output fell in the majority of steel-producing countries as a result of the global recession. In 2010 and 2017, it started to rise again. Crude steel production contracted in all regions in 2019 except in Asia and the Middle East.

📊 Data:
World Steel Association: https://www.worldsteel.org

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