Ukraine retained the 25th place on the rating of the Worldsteel International Association by the volume of steel production in the first seven months of 2023.
This follows from a statement by the Ukrmetalurgprom association, the Ukrainian News agency reports.
According to the production results in the first seven months of 2023, Ukraine took the 25th position among 64 steel-producing countries with a result of 3.43 million tons, down 28.8% year over year.
The first place traditionally belongs to China: Chinese metallurgists smelted 626.51 million tons of steel in 7M, up 2.5% year over year.
China's share in world steel production is 56.8%.
The second place belongs to India (production increased by 9% to 79.9 million tons), the third place to Japan (decrease by 3.9% to 51.2 million tons), the fourth place to the United States (decrease by 2.3% to 46, 8 million tons), the fifth - Russia (increased by 2.8% to 44.2 million tons), the sixth - South Korea (decreased by 1.8% to 39.4 million tons), the seventh - Germany (decreased by 4.7% to 21.5 million tons), eighth – Turkiye (decreased by 13.5% to 18.8 million tons), ninth - Brazil (decreased by 8.6% to 18.6 million tons), and tenth - Iran (increased by 4.1% to 18.1 million tons).
In the first seven months of 2023, World steel production amounted to 1.1 billion tons, down 0.12% year over year.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, Ukraine took 24th place in the ranking of the Worldsteel International Association in terms of steel production in 2022.
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