Iran Accounts for over 58% of West Asia’s steel Output in 2023: WSA
Iran produced 31.1 million tons of crude steel in 2023 to account for 58.4 percent of West Asia’s total production in the mentioned year, according to the latest report released by the World steel Association (WSA).
According to the report of public relations of IMIDRO, the West Asian nations reviewed in the WSA report, including Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, managed to produce 53.2 million tons of steel in 2023.
The Islamic Republic’s steel production increased by 1.8 percent in 2023 as compared to the previous year, when the production stood at 30.6 million tons, based on the WSA data.
West Asia’s total crude steel output increased by 1.3 percent in the mentioned year as compared to 2022.
Based on the WSA data, Iran maintained its place as the world’s 10th largest steel producer in 2023.
According to the WSA report, the world's steel producers managed to produce more than 1.888 billion tons of steel in 2023, which is a very slight decrease compared to 2022, and as a result, the World steel Association has declared the percentage of change to be zero.
China with a production of 1.019 billion tons, India with a production of 140.2 million tons, and Japan with a production of 87 million tons were the top three steel-producing countries in the world in 2023.
Iran is expected to climb to seventh place among the world’s top steel producers by the Iranian calendar year 1404 (March 2025).
Source: IMIDRO
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