Ukraine rose from 25th to 24th place in the rating of the international association Worldsteel by the volume of steel production in January-August.
This follows from a statement by the Ukrmetalurgprom association, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
According to it, according to the results of production in January-August, Ukraine took the 24th position among 64 countries - producers of steel with a result of 4.03 million tons, which is 22.3% lower than the indicator of January-August 2022.
The first place traditionally belongs to China: Chinese metallurgists in January-August smelted 712.93 million tons of steel, which is 2.6% higher than in January-August 2022.
China's share in world steel production is 56.7%.
The second place belongs to India (production increased by 10.5% to 92.2 million tons), the third place - to Japan (it decreased by 3.8% to 58.4 million tons), the fourth place - to the USA (it decreased by 1.9% to 53.8 million tons), the fifth - to russia (decreased by 3.9% to 50.8 million tons), the sixth - to South Korea (decreased by 2.3% to 45 million tons), the seventh - to Germany (decreased by 4.2% to 24.3 million tons), the eighth - to Turkey (decreased by 12.1% to 21.6 million tons), the ninth - to Brazil (decreased by 8.3% to 21.3 million tons), the tenth - to Iran (increased by 1.1% to 19.7 million tons).
World steel production in January-August amounted to 1,256.38 million tons, which is 0.21% higher than in January-August 2022.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, Ukraine took 24th place in the ranking of the international association Worldsteel in terms of steel production in 2022.
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