The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.
Mr. Wigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how much steel is made per head of population in each OECD and European Community country.
Mr. Leigh
The information is given in the table.
| Crude Steel Production in OECD Countries, 1990 | |||
| Crude steel production ('000 tonnes) (1) | Population ('000s) (2) | Production per 1,000 population (tonnes) (1)/(2) | |
| EC Countries: | |||
| Luxembourg | 3,560 | 381 | 9,344 |
| Belgium | 11,360 | 9,993 | 1,137 |
| Germany1 | 44,020 | 79,565 | 553 |
| Italy | 25,467 | 57,647 | 442 |
| Netherlands | 5,411 | 14,944 | 362 |
| France | 19,016 | 56,437 | 337 |
| Spain | 12,935 | 38,966 | 332 |
| United Kingdom | 17,902 | 57,408 | 312 |
| Denmark | 610 | 5,140 | 119 |
| Greece | 999 | 10,140 | 99 |
| Ireland | 326 | 3,503 | 93 |
| Portugal | 717 | 10,369 | 69 |
| EC total | 142,323 | 344,493 | 413 |
| Other OECD Countries: | |||
| Japan | 110,339 | 123,540 | 893 |
| Finland | 2,860 | 4,982 | 574 |
| Austria | 4,291 | 7,712 | 556 |
| Sweden | 4,454 | 8,566 | 520 |
| Canada | 12,184 | 26,620 | 458 |
| Australia | 6,670 | 17,086 | 390 |
| USA | 89,726 | 251,394 | 357 |
| Turkey | 9,320 | 57,163 | 163 |
| Switzerland | 1,050 | 6,796 | 155 |
| Crude steel production ('000 tonnes) (1) | Population ('000s) (2) | Production per 1,000 population (tonnes) (1)/(2) | |
| Norway | 376 | 4,242 | 89 |
| New Zealand | 3na | 3,379 | 3na |
| Iceland | 3na | 256 | 3na |
| OECD total2 | 383,593 | 852,594 | 450 |
| 1 Unified Germany (production data from International Iron and Steel Institute). | |||
| 2 Excludes New Zealand and Iceland. | |||
| 3 Not available. (However, estimates suggest production per head in New Zealand and Iceland is at the lower end of the OECD range). | |||
Notes:
(1)Source: OECD
(2) Source: OECD, mid-year estimates