World Steel Statistics — Production by Country

World crude steel production, 2015–2025

The world made 1,849.4 million tonnes of crude steel in 2025, 2.0% less than in 2024. Output has moved within a narrow band of about 1,850–1,960 Mt since 2020, after rising from about 1,630 Mt in the middle of the last decade.

Year	Million tonnes	Bar
2015	1,676
2016	1,634
2017	1,738
2018	1,831
2019	1,879
2020	1,883
2021	1,963
2022	1,889
2023	1,904
2024	1,885
2025	1,849.4

Bars start at 1,500 Mt so the year-to-year change is visible. 2024 is 1,885 Mt in World Steel in Figures 2025 and 1,886.8 Mt in worldsteel's revised January 2026 table.

Sources: 2015–2024 — worldsteel, World Steel in Figures 2025; 2025 — worldsteel, 2025 global crude steel production totals (January 2026).

Top 20 steel-producing countries, 2025

China made 52% of the world's crude steel in 2025, India 9%. India, Viet Nam and Saudi Arabia grew fastest of the top 20; China, Japan, Germany and Russia made less than in 2024.

#	Country	2025, Mt	2024, Mt	Change
1	China	960.8	1,005.1	-4.4%
2	India	164.9	149.4	+10.4%
3	United States	82.0	79.5	+3.1%
4	Japan	80.7	84.0	-3.9%
5	Russia (e)	67.8	71.0	-4.5%
6	South Korea	61.9	63.6	-2.7%
7	Türkiye	38.1	36.9	+3.3%
8	Germany	34.1	37.3	-8.6%
9	Brazil	33.3	33.9	-1.8%
10	Iran (e)	31.8	31.4	+1.3%
11	Viet Nam	24.7	22.0	+12.3%
12	Italy	20.7	20.0	+3.5%
13	Indonesia (e)	19.0	18.6	+2.2%
14	Taiwan, China (e)	17.1	19.2	-10.9%
15	Mexico (e)	13.5	14.3	-5.6%
16	Spain (e)	12.0	11.9	+0.8%
17	Canada (e)	11.5	12.3	-6.5%
18	Saudi Arabia	10.8	9.6	+12.5%
19	Egypt	10.6	10.7	-0.9%
20	France (e)	9.8	10.8	-9.3%

(e) estimated by worldsteel from partial data or other sources. Change is worked out from the two figures shown.

Source: worldsteel, 2025 global crude steel production totals (January 2026). Full country list: worldsteel Steel Data Viewer.

Top 10 steel-producing companies, 2024

#	Company	Crude steel, Mt
1	China Baowu Group	130.09
2	ArcelorMittal	65.00
3	Ansteel Group	59.55
4	Nippon Steel Corporation	43.64
5	HBIS Group	42.28
6	Shagang Group	40.22
7	Jianlong Group	39.37
8	POSCO Holdings	37.97
9	Shougang Group	31.57
10	Tata Steel Group	31.02

Company tonnage includes subsidiaries the company controls, as worldsteel counts it. The largest Middle East producer in the top 50 is Mobarakeh Steel (Iran), 10.19 Mt in 2024.

Source: worldsteel, World Steel in Figures 2025 — top steel-producing companies 2024.

Middle East and North Africa

worldsteel's Middle East region (Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yemen) made 56.9 Mt of crude steel in 2025, up 4.3% on 2024, and 54.8 Mt in 2024. Almost all of it — 95% in 2024 — is made in electric arc furnaces, much of it from direct-reduced iron made with natural gas.

Largest producers, 2025

Country	2025, Mt	2024, Mt
Iran (e)	31.8	31.4
Saudi Arabia	10.8	9.6
Egypt	10.6	10.7
Algeria (e)	5.3	4.5
United Arab Emirates	3.8	3.7
Iraq (e)	3.0	3.0
Oman (e)	3.0	3.0

Countries in worldsteel's 2025 top-40 list. Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco, Libya and Tunisia also make steel but are below that list's cut-off and are not shown.

Apparent steel use, 2020–2024 (finished steel, million tonnes)

	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Middle East	48.1	51.6	52.1	54.6	56.6
of which Iran	17.2	18.2	19.1	19.5	20.2
Other Middle East	30.9	33.4	33.0	35.1	36.4
Egypt	9.7	10.2	11.1	8.6	9.3
Middle East, kg per person	176.9	187.8	186.7	193.0	196.7

Apparent steel use is production plus imports minus exports of finished steel — what a market consumes, before stock changes.

Sources: production — worldsteel, January 2026 and World Steel in Figures 2025 (2024 and process shares); apparent steel use — World Steel in Figures 2025.

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