Blast furnace iron (BFI) production

The figures below are in thousand tonnes.

(e) indicates estimated figures.
(a) - steel industry only
(b) - electric pig iron
(c) - the 37 countries included in this table accounted for approximately 99% of total world blast furnace iron production in 2011.

The 2011 table has been moved to this page: 2011 iron production. Data for previous years is now available in PDF format from the statistics archive.

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