Monthly global cement production data

This dataset is a machine-readable (CSV+JSON) collation of available reported monthly cement and cement clinker production data from both national sources and the (now discontinued) UN Monthly Bulletin of Statistics. In total, 175 time series are present in the production dataset, of which 46 are from the UN bulletin. Chinese provincial clinker production is available for the period 2013-2020. Currently 70 of the monthly time-series representing 24 countries are connected to live sources and will be updated in future. 

In this release the most recent data are for August 2025 (China, Colombia, India, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Viet Nam). All sources are detailed in the accompanying JSON metadata file. The earliest data are for Taiwan, which start in 1982, Thailand in 1987, and Japan in 1989.

The time-series are necessarily incomplete. I have included the data that are available from each source. In some cases the sources also provide data on lime production, and this has been included since its production generates emissions in the same way as does the production of cement clinker. No interpolation or estimation has been used to generate this dataset: data are directly as reported from primary sources. These data are not production capacity, but actual production.

This update:

• New monthly cement series for Egypt, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam
• Added 16 years of earlier cement data for Japan, as well as new series for lime production
• Added some additional data for Iran
• Clinker trade data from UN COMTRADE removed to separate files
• All data updated to the most recent available

The countries for which monthly data sources are regularly updated are:

• Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Colombia, Germany, Egypt, Spain, India, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Viet Nam

If you intend to use this dataset in your own research, I would appreciate being contacted to discuss whether co-authorship is appropriate.

If you are aware of countries that publish monthly cement statistics that are not included in this dataset, please let me know. Note that some countries publish monthly industrial production statistics for cement that are indices, but these are most often not directly convertible to physical production.

Always make sure to check the Zenodo page for possible updates to the dataset.

See also: Global CO2 emissions from cement production (https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.831454). The monthly cement activity dataset presented here is one data source for the annual emissions dataset.