Steel production by country
Overview
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
production by country. For the company-oriented account, see List of steel producers.
In 2010, total world crude steel production was 1,413.6 million metric tonnes
Tonne
The tonne, known as the metric ton in the US , often put pleonastically as "metric tonne" to avoid confusion with ton, is a metric system unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. The tonne is not an International System of Units unit, but is accepted for use with the SI...
(mmt). The biggest steel producing country is currently China, which accounted for 44.3% of world steel production in 2010.
