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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1058449)

3/3/2018 3:59:35 PM

From: locogringo

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Check out the discrepancies for the last 10 years: (more years at link and better chart formatting, but you get the idea especially for the last 10 years) China is doing ½ of the world's production.

en.wikipedia.org

Name of Countries having largest steel production (up to 2017 data)

Country/Region 2017 [1] [8] 2016 [1] [9] 2015 [10] 2014 [11] 2013 [12] 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2000 1990 1980 1967

—	World	1691.2	1606.3	1620.4	1670.1	1649.3	1552.9	1490.1	1413.6	1219.7	1326.5	1351.3	850.1	770.4	716.4	497.2
1	People's Republic of China	831.7	786.9	803.8	822.7	779.0	724.7	683.3	626.7	573.6	500.3	494.9	128.5	66.4	37.1	14.0
-	European Union [13]	168.7	162.3	166.2	169.3	166.4	168.6	177.7	172.8	139.3	198.2	210.2	193.5	191.8	208.0	n/a
2	Japan	104.7	104.8	105.2	110.7	110.6	107.2	107.6	109.6	87.5	118.7	120.2	106.4	110.3	111.4	62.0
3	India	101.4	95.5	89.6	87.3	81.2	77.3	72.2	68.3	62.8	57.8	53.5	26.9	15.0	9.5	6.3
4	United States	81.6	78.5	78.9	88.2	87.0	88.6	86.2	80.6	58.2	91.4	98.1	101.8	89.7	101.4	115.0
5	Russia	71.3	70.5	71.1	71.5	69.4	70.6	68.7	66.9	60.0	68.5	72.4	59.1	n/a [14]	n/a [14]	n/a [14]
6	South Korea	71.1	68.6	69.7	71.5	66.0	69.3	68.5	58.5	48.6	53.6	51.5	43.1	23.1	8.5	0.3
7	Germany	43.6	42.1	42.7	42.9	42.6	42.7	44.3	43.8	32.7	45.8	48.6	46.4	44.0	51.1	41.3
8	Turkey	37.5	33.2	31.5	34.0	34.7	35.9	34.1	29.0	25.3	26.8	25.8	14.3	9.4	2.5	1.0
9	Brazil	34.4	30.2	33.3	33.9	34.2	34.7	35.2	32.8	26.5	33.7	33.8	27.9	20.6	15.3	3.6
10	Italy	24.0	23.3	22.0	23.7	24.1	27.2	28.7	25.8	19.7	30.6	31.6	26.8	25.5	26.5	15.9
11	Taiwan	23.2	21.8	21.4	23.1	22.3	20.7	20.2	19.8	15.8	19.9	20.9
12	Ukraine	22.7	24.2	22.9	27.2	32.8	32.9	35.3	33.6	29.9	37.3	42.8	31.8	54.6 [14]	52.3 [14]	n/a [14]
13	Iran	21.8	17.9	16.1	16.3	15.4	14.5	13.0	12.0	10.9	10.0	10.1	6.6	1.4	0.5	-
14	Mexico	20.0	19.0	18.3	19.0	18.2	18.1	18.1	17.0	14.2	17.2	17.6	15.6	8.7	7.1	3.0
15	France	15.5	14.6	15.0	16.1	15.7	15.6	15.8	15.4	12.8	17.9	19.3	21.0	19.0	23.1	19.6
16	Spain	14.5	13.6	14.9	14.3	13.7	13.6	15.6	16.3	14.3	18.6	19.0	15.8	12.9	12.8	4.5
17	Canada	13.7	12.7	12.5	12.7	12.4	13.5	13.1	13.0	9.0	14.8	15.6	16.6	12.3	15.9	8.8
18	Poland	10.3	8.9	9.1	8.6	8.0	8.4	8.8	8.0	7.2	9.7	10.6	10.5	13.6	19.5	10.4
19	Vietnam	10.3 [15]	7.8 [15]	5.7	5.9	5.6	5.3	4.9	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.3	0.3	0.1	0.1	-
20	Austria	8.1	7.4	7.7	7.9	7.9	7.4	7.5	7.2	5.7	7.6	7.6	5.7	4.3	4.6	3.0
21	Belgium	7.7	7.7	7.2	7.3	7.1	7.4	8.1	8.1	5.6	10.7	10.7	11.6	11.5	12.3	9.7
22	United Kingdom	7.5	7.6	10.8	12.1	11.9	9.6	9.5	9.7	10.1	13.5	14.3	15.2	17.8	11.3	24.3
23	Egypt	6.8	5.0	5.5	6.5	6.8	6.6	6.5	6.7	5.5	6.2	6.2	2.8	2.2	1.0	0.4
24	Netherlands	6.8	6.9	7.0	7.0	6.7	6.9	6.9	6.7	5.2	6.8	7.4	5.7	5.4	5.3	3.4
25	South Africa	6.3	6.1	7.6	6.6	7.2	7.1	6.7	8.5	7.5	8.3	9.1	8.5	8.7	9.1	3.7
26	Australia	5.3	5.3	4.9	4.6	4.7	4.9	6.4	7.3	5.2	7.6	7.9	7.1	6.6	7.6	6.3
27	Slovakia	5.0	4.8	4.6	4.7	4.5	4.4	4.2	4.6	3.7	4.5	5.1	3.7	5.1 [16]	n/a [16]	n/a [16]
28	Pakistan	5.0	3.6	2.9	2.4	1.9	1.6	1.6	1.4	1.2	2.0	1.1	1.0	0.8	-	-
29	Saudi Arabia	4.8 [15]	5.5	5.7	6.3	5.4	5.2	5.3	5.0	4.7	4.7	4.6	3.0	1.8	0.1	-
30	Indonesia	4.8 [15]	4.8	4.9	4.4	2.6	2.3	3.6	3.6	3.5	3.9	4.1	2.9	2.8	0.5	-
31	Sweden	4.7	4.62	4.4	4.5	4.4	4.3	4.9	4.8	2.8	5.2	5.7	5.2	4.5	4.2	4.7
32	Argentina	4.6	4.1	5.0	5.5	5.2	5.0	5.7	5.1	4.0	5.5	5.4	4.5	3.6	2.7	1.3
33	Czech Republic	4.6	5.3	5.3	5.4	5.2	5.1	5.6	5.2	4.6	6.4	7.1	6.2	9.7 [16]	n/a [16]	n/a [16]
34	Thailand	4.5	3.8	3.7	4.1	3.6	3.3	4.2	3.7	3.6	5.2	5.6	2.1	0.7	0.5	-
35	Kazakhstan	4.4	4.2	3.6	3.7	3.3	3.9	4.7	4.3	4.1	4.3	4.8	4.7	7.4 [14]	n/a [14]	n/a [14]
36	Finland	4.0	4.1	4.0	3.8	3.5	3.8	4.0	4.0	3.1	4.4	4.4	4.1	2.9	2.5	0.4
37	Romania	3.6	3.3	3.4	3.2	3.0	3.3	3.8	3.9	2.7	5.0	6.3	4.7	9.7	13.2	4.1
38	United Arab Emirates	3.3	3.2	3.0	2.4	2.9	2.4	2.0	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	-	-	n/a
39	Malaysia	2.8	2.8	3.8	4.3	4.7	5.6	5.9	4.1	4.0	6.4	6.9	3.7	1.1	0.2	0.1
40	Qatar	2.6	2.5	2.6	3.0	2.2	2.1	2.0	2.0	1.4	1.4	1.1	0.7	0.6	0.5	-
41	Belarus	2.4	2.2	2.6	2.5	2.2	2.7	2.6	2.5	2.4	2.6	2.4	1.5	1.5 [14]	-	-
42	Luxembourg	2.2	2.3	2.1	2.2	2.1	2.2	2.5	2.5	2.1	2.6	2.9	2.6	3.6	4.6	4.5
	Portugal	n/a	2.0	2.0	2.1	2.1	2.0	2.0	1.5	1.6	2.0	1.9	1.1	0.8	0.7	0.3
	Soviet Union	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	96.9 [17]
—	Others [18]	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	28.4	29.5	29.9	26.5 (est.)	23.3 (est.)	28.6 (est.)	30.7 (est.)	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a