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Steel by Country: China Outproduces the Next Nine Combined

China made over 1,000 million tonnes of steel in 2024, more than India, Japan, the United States, Russia, and five other top producers put together.

Simple World MapAuthor: Al MacDonald Editor: Fritz Lekschas License: CC BY-SA 3.0 ID: ISO 3166-1 or "_[a-zA-Z]" if an ISO code is not available
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China's output alone (1,005 Mt) exceeds the combined total of every other country on this map (622.2 Mt).
China
1005.1 Mt
India
149.6 Mt
Japan
84 Mt
United States
79.5 Mt
Russia
70.7 Mt
South Korea
63.5 Mt
Germany
37.2 Mt
Turkey
36.9 Mt
Brazil
33.7 Mt
Iran
31 Mt
Steel output by country, 2024. India is the fastest-growing major producer on this list, the riser on the dashboard's own production chart.

Why India’s rise is worth watching separately

India’s steady climb up this ranking, tracked on this material’s dashboard chart, reflects sustained domestic construction and manufacturing growth, a genuinely different growth driver from China’s earlier, larger-scale industrialisation, and worth tracking as a distinct trend rather than folding into “Asian steel growth” as one undifferentiated story.

Sources: production figures reference this project’s own verified production data (worldsteel).