China · 2025
960.8worldsteel ↗
million tonnes of crude steel
Industry · physical output
China crude steel production
One World Steel Association annual table answers China’s output, its world share and the ranking of major producers.
Year-on-year change
-4.4%
from 2024
Global share
52.0%worldsteel ↗
of world crude steel output · 2025
World total
1,849.4
million tonnes · includes annual estimates
Public five-year animated comparison
Annual crude steel output of the 2025 top ten producers
The official Steel Data Viewer exposes five annual years, 2021–2025. The chart opens on 2025; pressing Play at 2025 restarts from 2021. Viewer values can be more precise or revised, so they may differ slightly from the one-decimal annual release.
2025
Source boundary：The animation tracks the 2025 top ten across the viewer years 2021–2025; Russia and Iran retain the annual release’s (e) estimate flags for 2025.
Accessible table for the current year
| Rank | Country | Production (million tonnes) | Status |
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Source: worldsteel ↗ · worldsteel Steel Data Viewer; 2021–2025; unit: million tonnes; animation values may include later viewer revisionschinainfigures.com
China and the world
China output and share of world production
Both years use the China and World rows from the same annual table.
Source: worldsteel ↗ · Share = China output ÷ World total × 100chinainfigures.com
Definition
Crude steel is not finished steel
Crude steel is the first solid steel product after primary steelmaking and precedes rolling into finished products.
World-total note
The annual world total includes estimates
Monthly 70-country totals cover about 98% of prior-year world output, while the annual world total includes estimates for additional countries.
Avoid a common mistake
52% is not a capacity-utilisation rate
Do not treat crude steel production as steel capacity, apparent steel use, finished steel output, exports or product quality.
Top-ten data table
2025 and 2024 output in one source
| Rank | Country | 2025 | 2024 | YoY | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 960.8 | 1005.1 | -4.4% | Reported |
| 2 | India | 164.9 | 149.4 | 10.4% | Reported |
| 3 | United States | 82.0 | 79.5 | 3.1% | Reported |
| 4 | Japan | 80.7 | 84.0 | -4.0% | Reported |
| 5 | Russia | 67.8 | 71.0 | -4.5% | Estimate |
| 6 | South Korea | 61.9 | 63.6 | -2.8% | Reported |
| 7 | Türkiye | 38.1 | 36.9 | 3.3% | Reported |
| 8 | Germany | 34.1 | 37.3 | -8.6% | Reported |
| 9 | Brazil | 33.3 | 33.9 | -1.6% | Reported |
| 10 | Iran | 31.8 | 31.4 | 1.4% | Estimate |
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Revision and update timeline
Crude steel production indicator and global share added
Added 2024–2025 China crude steel production, same-source world shares and the official worldsteel top-40 ranking.
Related sources: World Steel Association ↗
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Public five-year crude steel animated ranking added
Added a 2021–2025 animation for the 2025 top ten crude steel producers using the archived worldsteel public viewer XLS, while retaining the annual-release headline and estimate flags.
Related sources: World Steel Association ↗ · World Steel Association ↗
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Data downloads and revision timeline added
Added page-level formal-data CSV files, chart-level CSV/PNG/SVG exports and a bilingual revision timeline to all indicator pages.
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