In the first seven months of 2022, Ukraine retained the 21st place in the rating of the international association Worldsteel by the volume of steel production.
That follows from a statement by the Ukrmetalurhprom association, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
According to the results of production in the first seven months of 2022, Ukraine occupies the 21st position among 64 countries - producers of steel with a result of 4.82 million tons, down 2.6 times year over year.
The first place traditionally belongs to China: Chinese metallurgists smelted 609.28 million tons in 7 months, which is 6.4% less than in the same period of 2021.
China's share in world steel production is 55.3%.
Second place belongs to India (the production increased by 8% to 73.3 million tons), third place to Japan (it decreased by 4.9% to 53.3 million tons), fourth place to the United States (it decreased by 3% to 48 million tons ), the fifth - Russia (the production decreased by 7% to 41.4 million tons), the sixth - South Korea (the production decreased by 3.4% to 39.9 million tons), the seventh - Germany (the production decreased by 5.1% to 22.5 million tons), eighth – Turkiye (the production decreased by 6.9% to 21.6 million tons), ninth - Brazil (the production decreased by 3.5% to 20.3 million tons), and the tenth place belongs to Iran (the production decreased by 3.7% to 17.4 million tons).
World steel production in the first seven months of 2022 amounted to 1,102.31 million tons, down 5.38% year over year.
As Ukrainian News reported, Ukraine took 14th place in the Worldsteel ranking in terms of steel production in 2021 with a result of 21.37 million tons, which is 3.6% more than in 2020.
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