Correct Answer - Option 2 : China
The correct answer is China.
- In 2020, China became the first country to produce over one billion tons of steel.
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In 2019, total world crude steel production was 1869.9 million tonnes (Mt).
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The biggest steel-producing country is currently China, which accounted for 53.3% of world steel production in 2019.
- The crude steel industry produces blooms, billets, slabs, or plates that are transformed through mechanical processes into rails, structural elements, bars, sheets, or wires.
- Iron ore-based steelmaking accounts for more than two-thirds of the production of crude steel in the world.
| RANK |
COUNTRY |
CRUDE STEEL PRODUCTION (million metric tons) |
| 1 |
China |
996.3 |
| 2 |
India |
111.2 |
| 3 |
Japan |
99.3 |
Hence, the correct answer is China.
