The world volume of casting production has fallen steadily by 6.4 percent since 2018, with a recorded production volume of 105.5 million metric tons in 2020. Despite this global decline, China's production has increased, maintaining the lead in 2020 with 51.95 million metric tons--nearly 49.2 percent of the world's production. India and the United States followed with a casting production of 11.31 and 9.75 million metric tons, respectively, that same year, with the U.S. showing a year-on-year decrease of 13.8 percent.
