Austria  France Germany Russia Britain
1871 36 80 143 7 334
1881 134 389 690 307 1316
1891 495 744 2452 434 3208
1901 1099 1425 6137 2220 4983
1911 2348 3413 13100 3314 6476

Table 1: Output of Crude Steel for Major European Countries
(in millions of metric tons)

Note: On the eve of World War I, the United States produced nearly 32 billion metric tons of steel annual, almost as much as all five of the major European powers combined.