According to the preliminary data released by the World Steel Association (worldsteel), global pig iron production in the 38 countries reporting to worldsteel accounting for approximately 99 percent of total world blast furnace pig iron production in 2011 amounted to 90 million metric tons in January this year, increasing by three percent as compared to the previous month and up 5.85 percent year on year.
In January this year, the top pig iron producer in the world according to worldsteel was China with 52.3 million mt, up 9.4 percent compared to December 2012 and constituting 58.2 percent of global pig iron production.
In 2012, a 1.7 percent year-on-year increase had been recorded in global pig iron output, to a total of 1.1 billion metric tons.