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Three Signs Point to a Bottom-out of LME Lead

November 13th 2014

Three signs – falling inventories, rising open interest, and narrowing cash-to-3-month contango

Lead cools down

November 7th 2014

According to the analysts from the Commerzbank, lead is falling out compared to other base metals, with a bunch of hazardous investors, there is a high chance of lead facing a production decline by the end of this, as commented in the previous forecasts.

China May Adjust VAT on Silver in Imported Lead Concentrate

October 31st 2014

China may adjust the value added tax (VAT) imposed on silver contained in imported lead concentrate

China Primary Lead Smelters Cut Operating Rate to 64% in Sept. on Severe Loss, Raw Material Shortage

October 28th 2014

The average operating rate at China's primary lead smelters fell to 64% in September

Base Metals Consolidate as US Treasury Yields Plunge and UK Offers First RMB-Denominated Bond

October 21st 2014

The LME's annual meeting is under way, and trading this week is likely to be muted

Sharp Falls in LME Lead to Boost China Lead Conc. Imports

October 20th 2014

Recent sharp declines in LME lead prices offered profitable opportunities for Chinese smelters

SHFE New Rule Sees Limited Impact on Easing of Guangdong Lead Inventories

October 17th 2014

The Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) announced September 29 that beginning with the SHFE 1502 lead contract

Chihong Zn & Ge's New Lead & Zinc Project to Start Trial Production

October 15th 2014

The new lead & zinc project of Hulunbuir Chihong Mining Co., Ltd. – a subsidiary of Yunnan Chihong Zn & Ge

Base Metal Prices Face Downside Risks This Week

October 14th 2014

Base metal prices look set to be more volatile this week as Chinese investors return from the week-long holiday

Yunnan Germanium Not Affected by 6.6-Magnitude Quake

October 13th 2014

Yunnan Germanium Co., suffers no impact from the most recent 6.6-magnitude earthquake in Jinggu

China's Lead Smelters under Greater Pressure from New Environmental Regulations

October 9th 2014

China's recently promulgated a National Plan for Addressing Climate Change (2014-2020)

Will Base Metal Market Improve in October?

September 30th 2014

It is a traditionally peak demand period for base metal market in September

MIIT Issues Draft Rules for Lead & Zinc Industries; Threshold Raised for New Mines

September 25th 2014

China's Ministry of Industry & Information Technology (MIIT) recently released a draft of the 2014 Rules

Lead toxicants ruptures into water ways, Canada

August 6th 2014

People of British Columbia is likely on water ban due to the out rush of whole lot of toxics into the B.C water ways from the outbreak of mine tailings from the 'Imperial Mine' on Monday morning.

KGL Resources Encounters with Silver and Lead Mineralization at Jervois

July 29th 2014

ASX listed KGL Resources’ drilling program at Jervois copper-silver-gold project in the Northern Territory is on progress.

Nickel

The one locality in the United States where nickel was commercially mined is Riddle, Oregon, where several square miles of nickel-bearing garnierite surface deposits are located. The mine closed in 1987.^[36][37] The Eagle mine project is a new nickel mine in Michigan's upper peninsula. Completed in 2013, it is expected to begin operations in the fourth quarter of 2014.^[38]

Mine production and reserves[35]	2012 (metric tons)	2011 (metric tons)	Reserves (metric tons)
Australia	230,000	215,000	20,000,000
Botswana	26,000	26,000	490,000
Brazil	140,000	209,000	7,500,000
Canada	220,000	220,000	3,300,000
China	91,000	89,800	3,000,000
Colombia	80,000	76,000	1,100,000
Cuba	72,000	71,000	5,500,000
Dominican Republic	24,000	21,700	970,000
Indonesia	320,000	290,000	3,900,000
Madagascar	22,000	5,900	1,600,000
New Caledonia	140,000	131,000	12,000,000
Philippines	330,000	270,000	1,100,000
Russia	270,000	267,000	6,100,000
South Africa	42,000	44,000	3,700,000
Other countries	120,000	103,000	4,600,000
World total (metric tons, rounded)	2,100,000	1,940,000	75,000,000

TIN

Major Tin Producers of the World-2010

Country	Production in Metric Tonnes
China	115,000
Indonesia	60,000
Peru	38,000
Bolivia	16,000
Brazil	12,000
Congo	9,000
Vietnam	3,500
Malaysia	2,000
Australia	2,000
Russia	1,000
Thailand	100
Portugal	100
Other Countries	2,000

Last updated on December 20, 2012

ZINC

Rank	Country/Region	Zinc production (tonnes)
—	World total	11,200,000
1	China	3,100,000
2	Peru	1,509,129
3	Australia	1,290,000
4	United States	736,000
5	Canada	698,901
6	India	695,000
7	Kazakhstan	480,000
8	Bolivia	421,721
9	Mexico	390,000[2]
10	Ireland	385,670
11	Russia	225,000 [2]
12	Sweden	192,538
13	Brazil	174,000[3]
14	Iran	160,000[2]
15	Poland	100,000[2]
16	Morocco	98,000
17	Turkey	76,000[2]
18	Mongolia	72,000[2]
19	North Korea	65,000[2]
20	Vietnam	45,000[2]
21	Namibia	38,300[2][4]
22	Honduras	36,370
23	Thailand	34,000
24	Macedonia	32,000
25	Finland	30,233
26	Argentina	30,000[2]
27	South Africa	28,159
28	Chile	27,801
29	Greece	18,126
30	Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	16,000
31	Bulgaria	12,000[2]
32	Philippines	10,035
33	Spain	6,500[2]
34	Saudi Arabia	4,500[2]
35	South Korea	4,000[2]
36	Armenia	3,900[2]
37	Kosovo	3,690
38	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,000[2]
39	Laos	1,000[2]
39	Serbia	1,000[2]
41	Portugal	501
42	Myanmar	45

Rank	Country/Region	2012 Copper production (tonnes)	2013 Copper production (tonnes)
	World	16,800,000	17,900,000
1	Chile	5,433,900	5,700,000
2	China	1,642,300	1,650,000
3	Peru	1,298,564	1,300,000
4	United States	1,170,000	1,220,000
5	Australia	914,000	990,000
6	Russia	720,000	930,000
7	Zambia	629,020	830,000
8	DR Congo	608,400	900,000
9	Canada	578,586	630,000
10	Mexico	500,275	480,000
11	Poland	427,064	430,000
12	Kazakhstan	424,000	440,000
13	Indonesia	398,100	380,000
14	Iran	245,200	255,000[2]
15	Brazil	219,600
16	Laos	149,580
17	Argentina	135,700
18	Papua New Guinea	125,348
19	Mongolia	123,900
20	Bulgaria	118,255
21	Turkey	101,700
22	Spain	97,636
23	Sweden	82,422
24	South Africa	81,000
25	Uzbekistan	80,000
26	Portugal	74,043
27	Philippines	65,444
28	Armenia	40,441
29	Mauritania	37,670
30	Botswana	35,768
31	Serbia	32,205
32	India	28,950
33	Finland	25,446
34	Oman	24,864
35	Pakistan	24,000
36	Morocco	18,500
37	Romania	15,902
38	Burma	12,100
39	Dominican Republic	11,737
40	Vietnam	11,266
41	Macedonia	9,506
42	Georgia	7,100
43	North Korea	6,700
44	Albania	6,400
45	Tanzania	5,840
46	Namibia	5,304
47	Zimbabwe	4,724
48	Cyprus	4,328
49	Saudi Arabia	2,150
50	Colombia	781

This is a list of countries by aluminium production in 2012 (and 2013) based on USGS figures.^[1][2]

Rank	Country/Region	Aluminium production (thousands of tonnes)
—	World	47,300[3]
1	People's Republic of China	21,500[3]
2	Russia	3,950[3]
3	Canada	2,900[3]
4	United States	1,950[3]
5	United Arab Emirates	1,800[3]
6	Australia	1,750[3]
7	India	1,700[3]
8	Brazil	1,330[3]
9	Norway	1,200[3]
10	Bahrain	900[3]
11	Iceland	825[3]
12	South Africa	820[3]
13	Qatar	600[3]
14	Mozambique	560[3]
15	Argentina	460[3]
16	Germany	400[3]
17	Oman	360
18	France	349
19	New Zealand	327
20	Iran	320
21	Tajikistan	273
22	Egypt	265
23	Indonesia	250
24=	Kazakhstan	249
24=	Romania	249
26	Spain	230
27	Venezuela	200[3]
28	Slovakia	161
29	Netherlands	150
30	Greece	135
31	Sweden	129
32	Bosnia and Herzegovina	126
33	Malaysia	120
34	Italy	110
35	Ghana	100
36	Montenegro	80
37=	Turkey	60
37=	United Kingdom	60
39	Azerbaijan	54
40	Cameroon	52
41	Japan	50
42	Slovenia	40
43	Nigeria	26
44	Saudi Arabia	5

Rank	Country/Region	Zinc production (tonnes)
—	World total	11,200,000
1	China	3,100,000
2	Peru	1,509,129
3	Australia	1,290,000
4	United States	736,000
5	Canada	698,901
6	India	695,000
7	Kazakhstan	480,000
8	Bolivia	421,721
9	Mexico	390,000[2]
10	Ireland	385,670
11	Russia	225,000 [2]
12	Sweden	192,538
13	Brazil	174,000[3]
14	Iran	160,000[2]
15	Poland	100,000[2]
16	Morocco	98,000
17	Turkey	76,000[2]
18	Mongolia	72,000[2]
19	North Korea	65,000[2]
20	Vietnam	45,000[2]
21	Namibia	38,300[2][4]
22	Honduras	36,370
23	Thailand	34,000
24	Macedonia	32,000
25	Finland	30,233
26	Argentina	30,000[2]
27	South Africa	28,159
28	Chile	27,801
29	Greece	18,126
30	Congo, the Democratic Republic of the	16,000
31	Bulgaria	12,000[2]
32	Philippines	10,035
33	Spain	6,500[2]
34	Saudi Arabia	4,500[2]
35	South Korea	4,000[2]
36	Armenia	3,900[2]
37	Kosovo	3,690
38	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2,000[2]
39	Laos	1,000[2]
39	Serbia	1,000[2]
41	Portugal	501
42	Myanmar	45

ZINC

Ranking (2013)	2013[1]	2012[2]	2011[3]	2010[3]	2009[3]	2008[3]	2007[3]	Company	Headquarters
1	96.1	93.6	97.2	98.2	77.5	103.3	116.4	ArcelorMittal	Luxembourg
2	50.1	47.9	33.4[4]	35.0[4]	26.5[4]	37.5[4]	35.7[4]	Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal	Japan
3	45.8	42.8	44.4	52.9[5]	40.2[6]	33.3	31.1	Hebei Iron and Steel	China
4	43.9	42.7	43.3	37.0	31.3	35.4	28.6	Baosteel Group	China
5	39.3	36.4	37.7	36.6[5]	30.3	27.7	20.2	Wuhan Iron and Steel	China
6	38.4	39.9	39.1	35.4	31.1	34.7	31.1	POSCO	South Korea
7	35.1	32.3	31.9	30.1[5]	26.4[5]	23.3	22.9	Jiangsu Shagang	China
8	33.7	30.2	29.8	22.1	20.1	16.0	16.2	Ansteel	China
9	31.5	31.4	30.0	25.8[5]	17.3[5]	12.2	12.9	Shougang	China
10	31.2	30.4	29.9	31.1	25.8	33.0	34.0	JFE	Japan
11	25.3	23.0	23.8	23.5[5]	21.9[5]	24.4	26.5	Tata Steel	India
12	22.8	23.0	24.0	23.2[5]	26.4[6]	21.8[7]	23.8	Shandong Iron and Steel Group	China
13	20.4	21.4	22.0	22.3	15.2	23.2	21.5	United States Steel Corporation	United States
14	20.2	20.1	19.9	18.3	14.0	20.4	20.0	Nucor Corporation	United States
15	19.3	17.3[8]	19.2[9]	17.5[9]	-	-	-	Bohai Iron and Steel Group	China
16	19.0	19.8	20.5	21.6	14.2	20.4	18.6	Gerdau	Brazil
17	18.8	17.3	16.7	15.4[5]	14.8[6]	15.0[6]	14.2	Maanshan Iron and Steel Company	China
18	17.2	17.1	16.3	12.9	8.4	9.9	10.0	Hyundai Steel	South Korea
19	16.8	15.1	16.5	22.1[5]	9.1[5]	7.4[6]	7.6	Benxi Steel	China
20	16.1	15.9	16.8	16.3	15.3	17.7	16.2	Evraz	Russia
21	15.7	15.1	15.3	14.7[5]	16.7	19.2	17.3	Severstal	Russia
22	15.5	14.9	12.1	11.9	10.9	11.3	9.7	Novolipetsk Steel	Russia
23	15.0	14.1	15.9	15.1[5]	11.8[6]	11.3[6]	11.1	Valin Steel Group	China
24	14.3	12.5	14.4	13.8[5]	7.0[5]	8.2[6]	9.1	Metinvest	Ukraine
25	14.3	13.8	12.4	8.8[5]	8.4[5]	6.5	7.8	Jianlong Steel	China
26	14.3	13.6	12.6	11.4	10.6	10.0	10.1	IMIDRO	Iran
27	14.3	12.7	14.0	12.7	8.9	11.0	10.9	China Steel	Taiwan
28	13.5	13.5	13.5	13.6	13.5	13.7	13.9	Steel Authority of India Limited	India
29	13.2	-	-	-	-	-	-	Fangda Steel[10]	China
30	12.7	13.2	11.2	9.8[5]	9.9[5]	7.5	6.2	Rizhao Steel	China
31	12.5	15.1	17.9	16.7[5]	11.0	15.9	17.0	ThyssenKrupp	Germany
32	11.9	13.0	12.2	11.4	9.6	12.0	13.3	Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works	Russia
33	11.8	8.5	N/A	6.4	5.5	3.8	3.0	JSW Steel Ltd	India
34	11.2	10.1	10.2	8.6[5]	7.6[5]	6.9	7.4	Jiuquan Steel	China
35	10.7	10.2	10.2	10.1[5]	10.1[5]	8.8	9.8	Baotou Steel	China
36	10.3	7.7	9.4	10.0[5]	8.5[5]	9.0[6]		Anyang Steel	China
37	10.2	9.1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	Handan Zongheng Iron and Steel	China
38	10.0	10.1	9.9	9.6[5]	9.5[5]	9.2	9.3	Taiyuan Iron and Steel	China
World total	1,607	1,548	1,490	1,413	1,219	1,329	1,351	-	-

Other major steel producers[edit]

• Acerinox, Spain
• Aichi Steel Corporation, Japan
• AK Steel, formerly Armco, United States
• Allegheny Technologies, United States
• Altos Hornos de México, Mexico
• Angang Steel Company Limited, China
• Aperam, Luxembourg
• Arrium, Australia
• BlueScope Steel, Australia
• BSRM, Bangladesh
• Celsa Group, Spain^[9]
• Commercial Metals Company, United States
• Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, Brazil
• Coporación Aceros Arequipa, Peru
• Crucible Industries, USA
• Dongkuk Steel, South Korea
• Erdemir, Turkey
• Essar Steel, India
• EZDK, Egypt
• Gruppo Lucchini, Italy
• Hadeed, Saudi Arabia
• Ilyich Mariupol steel and iron works, Ukraine
• ISD Corporation, Ukraine^[9]
• Japan Steel Works, Japan
• Jinxi Iron and Steel, China^[9]
• Jindal Steel and Power, India
• Kobe Steel, Japan
• Libyan Iron and Steel Company, Libya
• Mahindra Ugine Steel, India
• Mechel, Russia
• Metalloinvest, Russia
• Mitsui & Co., Japan
• MMX Mineração, Brazil
• Nisshin, Japan
• Olympic Steel, United States
• Outokumpu, Finland
• Pakistan Steel Mills, Pakistan
• Panzhihua Iron and Steel
• Qatar Steel, Qatar
• Rautaruukki, Finland
• Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., United States
• Salzgitter AG, Germany
• Schnitzer Steel Industries, United States
• Sheffield Forgemasters, United Kingdom
• SIDERPERU, Peru
• Sidetur, Venezuela
• SSAB, Sweden
• Steel Dynamics, United States
• Taiyuan Iron and Steel, China^[9]
• Tangshan Guofeng Iron and Steel, China^[9]
• Techint, Italy
• Ternium - Hylsa and Imsa in Mexico, Siderar in Argentina
• Usiminas, Brazil
• Vallourec, France
• Vizag Steel, India
• Voestalpine, Austria
• Votorantim Siderurgia, Brazil
• Xinyu Iron and Steel, China^[9]

Rank	Country	Iron ore production (thousands of tonnes)	year
	World	2,950,000	2013
1	People's Republic of China	1,320,000[1]	2013
2	Australia	530,000	2013
3	Brazil	398,000	2013
4	India	150,000	2013
5	Russia	102,000	2013
6	Ukraine	80,000	2013
7	South Africa	67,000	2013
8	United States	52,000	2013
9	Canada	40,000	2013
10	Iran	37,000	2013
11	Venezuela	30,000	2013
12	Sweden	26,000	2013
13	Kazakhstan	25,000	2013
14	Mexico	14,482	2011
15	Chile	12,624	2011
16	Mauritania	12,000	2011
17	Peru	10,459	2011
18	Malaysia	7,696	2011
19	North Korea	5,300	2011
20	Turkey	4,500	2011
21	Mongolia	3,000	2011
22	New Zealand	2,300	2011
23	Austria	2,050	2011
24	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1,850	2011
25	Algeria	1,500	2011
26	Greece	1,200	2011
27	Thailand	1,000	2011
28	Vietnam	1,000	2011
29	Norway	700	2011
30	South Korea	510	2011
31	Germany	400	2011
32	Egypt	300	2011
33	Pakistan	300	2011
34	Tunisia	175	2011
35	Colombia	174	2011
36	Azerbaijan	60	2011
37	Indonesia	46	2011
38	Morocco	45	2011
39	Portugal	14	2011
40	Kenya	11	2011
	other countries	<10 or 0

Pig iron production[edit]

This is a list of countries by pig iron production, based on U.S. Geological Survey data in 2014.

Rank	Country	Iron ore production (thousands of tonnes)	year
	World	1,170,000	2013
1	People's Republic of China	720,000	2013
2	Japan	84,000	2013
3	Russia	50,000	2013
4	India	50,000	2013
5	South Korea	39,000	2013
6	United States	31,000	2013
7	Ukraine	29,000	2013
8	Germany	27,000	2013
9	Brazil	26,000	2013
10	Taiwan	14,000	2013
11	Turkey	9,000	2013
	other countries	91,000

This is a list of countries by steel production from 2007 to 2013, based on data provided by the World Steel Association.^{[1][2][3][4] [5]}

Crude steel production (million metric tons):

Rank	Country/Region	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
—	World	1,351.3	1326.5	1,219.7	1,413.6	1,490.1	1552.9	1607.2
1	People's Republic of China	494.9	500.3	573.6	626.7	683.3	724.7	779.0
-	European Union	210.2	198.2	139.3	172.8	177.7	168.6	165.6
2	Japan	120.2	118.7	87.5	109.6	107.6	107.2	110.6
3	United States	98.1	91.4	58.2	80.6	86.2	88.6	87.0
4	India	53.5	57.8	62.8	68.3	72.2	77.3	81.2
5	Russia	72.4	68.5	60.0	66.9	68.7	70.6	69.4
6	South Korea	51.5	53.6	48.6	58.5	68.5	69.3	66.0
7	Germany	48.6	45.8	32.7	43.8	44.3	42.7	42.6
8	Turkey	25.8	26.8	25.3	29.0	34.1	35.9	34.7
9	Brazil	33.8	33.7	26.5	32.8	35.2	34.7	34.2
10	Ukraine	42.8	37.3	29.9	33.6	35.3	32.9	32.8
11	Italy	31.6	30.6	19.7	25.8	28.7	27.2	24.1
12	Taiwan	20.9	19.9	15.7	19.6	22.7	20.7	22.3
13	Mexico	17.6	17.2	14.2	17.0	18.1	18.1	18.4 est
14	France	19.3	17.9	12.8	15.4	15.8	15.6	15.7
15	Iran	10.1	10.0	10.9	12.0	13.0	14.5	15.4
16	Spain	19.0	18.6	14.3	16.3	15.6	13.6	13.7
17	Canada	15.6	14.8	9.0	13.0	13.1	13.5	12.5 est
18	United Kingdom	14.3	13.5	10.1	9.7	9.5	9.6	11.9
19	Poland	10.6	9.7	7.2	8.0	8.8	8.4	8.0
20	Austria	7.6	7.6	5.7	7.2	7.5	7.4	7.9
21	South Africa	9.1	8.3	7.5	8.5	6.7	7.1	7.2 est
22	Belgium	10.7	10.7	5.6	8.1	8.1	7.4	7.1
23	Egypt	6.2	6.2	5.5	6.7	6.5	6.6	6.8
24	Netherlands	7.4	6.8	5.2	6.7	6.9	6.9	6.7 est
25	Malaysia	6.9	6.4	4.0	4.1	5.9	5.6	5.9 est
26	Vietnam	2.3	2.7	2.7	2.7	4.9	5.3	5.6
27	Saudi Arabia	4.6	4.7	4.7	5.0	5.3	5.2	5.4
28	Czech Republic	7.1	6.4	4.6	5.2	5.6	5.1	5.2
29	Argentina	5.4	5.5	4.0	5.1	5.7	5.0	5.2
30	Australia	7.9	7.6	5.2	7.3	6.4	4.9	4.6 est
31	Slovakia	5.1	4.5	3.7	4.6	4.2	4.4	4.5
32	Sweden	5.7	5.2	2.8	4.8	4.9	4.3	4.4
33	Finland	4.4	4.4	3.1	4.0	4.0	3.8	3.5
34	Thailand	5.6	5.2	3.6	3.7	4.2	3.3	3.5 est
35	Kazakhstan	4.8	4.3	4.1	4.3	4.7	3.9	3.3 est
36	Romania	6.3	5.0	2.7	3.9	3.8	3.3	2.9
37	United Arab Emirates	0.09	0.09	0.2	0.5	2.0	2.4	2.9 est
38	Indonesia	4.2	3.9	3.5	3.6	3.6	2.3	2.4 est
39	Belarus	2.4	2.6	2.4	2.5	2.6	2.7	2.3
40	Venezuela	5.0	4.2	3.8	2.2	3.1	2.4	2.3
—	Others[6]	30.7 (est.)	28.6 (est.)	23.3 (est.)	26.5 (est.)	29.9	29.5	28.4

Exports[edit]

Top steel exporters in 2013^[7]

Rank	Country	Mt
1	China	61.5
2	Japan	42.5
-	European Union[8]	38.7
3	South Korea	28.9
4	Ukraine	24.7
4	Germany	24.3
6	Russia	23.6
7	Turkey	17.3
8	Italy	16.9
9	France	14.2
10	Belgium	13.9
11	United States	12.5
12	Taiwan	11.6
13	India	10.1
14	Spain	9.3
15	Netherlands	8.8

Top steel net exporters in 2013^[7]

Rank	Country	Mt
1	China	46.8
2	Japan	37.1
3	Ukraine	23.0
4	Russia	17.1
5	South Korea	9.9
-	European Union[8]	7.9
6	Brazil	4.4
7	Taiwan	3.8
7	Belgium	3.8
9	Austria	3.7
10	Turkey	2.8
11	Netherlands	2.6
11	Slovakia	2.6
13	India	2.3

Imports[edit]

Top steel importers in 2013^[7]

Rank	Country	Volume
-	European Union[8]	30.8
1	United States	30.3
2	Germany	22.1
3	South Korea	19.0
4	Thailand	15.9
5	Italy	15.6
6	China	14.8
7	Turkey	14.5
8	France	13.2
9	Indonesia	12.3
10	Belgium	10.1
11	Vietnam	10.0
12	Canada	8.9
13	Poland	8.1
14	Taiwan	7.8
15	Mexico	7.7

Top steel net importers in 2013^[7]

Rank	Country	Volume
1	United States	17.8
2	Thailand	14.4
3	Indonesia	11.6
4	Vietnam	8.6
5	Saudi Arabia	6.4
6	United Arab Emirates	5.3
7	Algeria	5.1
8	Philippines	4.8
9	Iraq	4.5
10	Egypt	3.9
10	Singapore	3.9
12	Hong Kong	3.2
13	Canada	3.1
13	Poland	3.1
15	Iran	2.7