Economics

Every month, worldsteel releases crude steel and iron production figures for 64 countries. The monthly press release also contains a graph of the global steel capacity utilisation ratio comparing current data with the same month of the previous year.

In April and October, worldsteel announces its short range outlook (SRO), a forecast for apparent steel use. The April SRO looks seven quarters ahead and the October one - announced at the worldsteel annual conference - looks five quarters ahead.

worldsteel projections consider both real and apparent steel use. Apparent steel use reflects the deliveries of steel to the marketplace from the steel producers as well as from importers. This differs from real steel use, which takes into account steel delivered to or drawn from inventories.

The most recent SRO and monthly crude steel press releases are published on this website.

Publications

The annual Steel Statisical Yearbook presents a cross-section of steel industry statistics. It contains comprehensive statistics on crude steel production by process, steel production by product, steel trade by product, apparent steel use, trade and production of iron ore.

Also once a year, worldsteel publishes World Steel in Figures, a booklet containing essential facts and statistics about the global steel industry.

All worldsteel publications are available for purchase or download from the online bookshop.

More steel in figures

Historical statistics are available from the 'statistics archive' page of this website.

There is also a e-mail subscription service that provides the latest Excel tables containing world crude steel and world blast furnace and direct reduced iron production figures. See the online bookshop for details.