23 December 2022, Friday, 19:00 239

Ukraine Takes 24th Place In Worldsteel Rating By Volume Of Steel Production In 11M

Редактор: Daria Zubkova

Ukraine took 24th place in the rating of the international association Worldsteel in terms of steel production in January-November.

This is stated in the message of the Ukrmetalurgprom association of metallurgical enterprises, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

According to him, according to the results of production in January-November, Ukraine ranks 24th among 64 countries - producers of steel with a result of 6.157 million tons, which is 3.2 times lower than the indicator of January-November 2021.

The first place traditionally belongs to China: Chinese metallurgists smelted 935 million tons in 11 months, which is by 1.4% less than in the same period of 2021.

China's share in world steel production is 55.3%.

Second place belongs to India (production increased by 6% to 114.2 million tons), third place - to Japan (decrease by 6.9% to 82.3 million tons), fourth place - to the USA (decrease by 5.5% to 74.4 million tons), the fifth - to Russia (decreased by 7% to 65.9 million tons), the sixth - to South Korea (decreased by 6.1% to 60.6 million tons), the seventh - to Germany (decreased by 7.9% to 34.2 million tons), the eighth - to Turkey (decreased by 12.3% to 32.5 million tons), the ninth - to Brazil (decreased by 5.9% to 31.5 million tons), the tenth - to Iran (increased by 8.5% to 27.9 million tons).

World steel production in January-November amounted to 1,691 million tons, which is by 3.7% lower than in January-November 2021.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Ukraine took 23rd place in the rating of the international association Worldsteel in terms of steel production in January-October.

Ukraine took 14th place in the Worldsteel rating by the volume of steel production in 2021 with a result of 21.37 million tons, which is by 3.6% more than in 2020.