Steelmaking capacity change
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-0.4%
Global · 2021–2025
Steelmaking capacity change worldwide came in at -0.4% in 2021–2025 (OECD).
- Publisher
- OECD
- Authority tier
- T1 Official
- Report
- OECD Steel Outlook 2026
- Locator
- Countries with excess capacity are flooding world markets with steel
- Retrieved
- 15 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
OECD area capacity edged down by 2.8 Mt (-0.4%) during 2021-2025, with particularly sharp declines in the United Kingdom (-39.7%) and Japan (-7.2%).
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- APA
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2025). OECD Steel Outlook 2026. Retrieved September 15, 2026, from https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-steel-outlook-2026_99ab9b0c-en.html. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XBZ6P614DAAC7324B3Q
- MLA
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. "OECD Steel Outlook 2026." 2025, https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-steel-outlook-2026_99ab9b0c-en.html. Accessed 15 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XBZ6P614DAAC7324B3Q.
- Chicago
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. "OECD Steel Outlook 2026." 2025. https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-steel-outlook-2026_99ab9b0c-en.html. Accessed September 15, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XBZ6P614DAAC7324B3Q.
- BibTeX
- @misc{oecd2025steelmaking324b3q, author = {{Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development}}, title = {OECD Steel Outlook 2026}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2KJ7XBZ6P614DAAC7324B3Q}, note = {Original source: https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/oecd-steel-outlook-2026\_99ab9b0c-en.html. Accessed September 15, 2026.} }
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Primary Source
- Publisher
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 1 · Multilateral Official
- Report
- OECD Steel Outlook 2026
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- Countries with excess capacity are flooding world markets with steel
- Retrieved
- 15 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification & Integrity
- Audit status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- Editorial review
- Checked on
- 15 September 2026
- Last revision
- 15 September 2026
- Archival URI
- /stat/stat_01M2KJ7XBZ6P614DAAC7324B3Q