Salient Aluminum Statistics

TABLE 1
SALIENT ALUMINUM STATISTICS¹

(Thousand metric tons unless otherwise specified)

		2011		2012		2013		2014		2015
United States:
Primary production:
Quantity		1,986		2,070		1,946		1,710		1,587
Value	millions	$5,083		$4,608		$4,042		$3,937		$3,085
Price, average, U.S. market, spot	cents per pound	116.1		101.0		94.2		104.5		88.2
Inventories (December 31):
Aluminum industry²		1,060		1,140		1,130		1,280		1,350
London Metal Exchange, U.S. warehouses³		2,360		2,120		1,950		1,190		507
Secondary recovery:⁴
New scrap		1,670	^r	1,760	^r	1,790	^r	1,880	^r	1,910
Old scrap		1,440	^r	1,630	^r	1,630		1,700		1,470
Total		3,110	^r	3,380	^r	3,420	^r	3,570	^r	3,380
Exports, crude, semicrude, and scrap		3,420		3,480		3,390		3,230		3,010
Imports for consumption, crude and semicrude⁵		3,710		3,760		4,160		4,290		4,560
Supply, apparent⁶		5,210		5,890	^r	6,320	^r	6,950	^r	7,120
Consumption, apparent⁷		3,530	^r	4,130	^r	4,530		5,070	^r	5,220
World, production		46,800	^r	49,200	^r	51,900	^r	54,000	^r	57,500	^e
^eEstimated. ^rRevised.-
¹Data are rounded to no more than three significant digits except -Primary production: Quantity and Value- and -Price,
average, U.S. market, spot.-
²Data from The Aluminum Association Inc.; includes ingot, semifabricated material, and scrap inventory levels for-
producers in the United States and Canada.
³Includes aluminum alloyed material.
⁴Metallic recovery from purchased, tolled, or imported new and old scrap expanded for full industry coverage.
⁵Does not include scrap.
⁶Defined as domestic primary metal production plus secondary recovery plus imports (excluding scrap) minus exports-
plus adjustments for London Metal Exchange (U.S. warehouses) and industry stock changes.
⁷Apparent supply less recovery from purchased new scrap.