World primary aluminium production declines 3% in April 2025, extending three-year trend

In April (30 days) 2025, the world's primary aluminium production decreased by 3.27 per cent M-o-M despite no decline recorded in daily average output. According to IAI, the world’s daily average aluminium production in April was 201,100 tonnes, remaining flat compared to 201,200 tonnes in March. However, on an annual basis, the output increased by 2.25 per cent, showed the International Aluminium Institute (IAI).

Decoding the output trend of April

According to IAI data, the world primary aluminium production in April was 6.033 million tonnes, compared to 6.237 million tonnes a month ago and 5.9 million tonnes a year earlier. Throughout the year so far, the world primary aluminium production recorded the second monthly fall, but it is important to analyse if this has been a trend over the years or one-of-a-kind situation.

If compared to April 2024, the world’s primary aluminium production witnessed M-o-M fall of 3.1 per cent from 6.089 million tonnes to 5.901 million tonnes. This indicates that the world production also decreased last year in April, and at the same rate of 3 per cent.The trend repeats for the third year in a row as the world primary aluminium production also saw a 3 per cent downfall in April 2023. 

Who drove the monthly decline in April?

If we follow the Y-o-Y trend, except Africa, all the other primary aluminium producing-regions recorded M-o-M fall in both April 2024 and April 2025. In the North and South America, primary aluminium production in April 2025 fell 3.26 per cent and 4.6 per cent M-o-M, amounting to 326,000 tonnes and 125,000 tonnes. The declining rate in North America mirrored the same as in April 2024, while South America’s output this year recorded higher declining rate compared to 3.15 per cent in April 2024.

In Europe (including Russia), primary aluminium production in April 2025 slumped by 2.9 per cent M-o-M, compared to 3.02 per cent of decline in 2024. In April 2025, Europe produced 578,000 tonnes of primary aluminium versus 595,000 tonnes of output in March, whereas the output in the previous year stood at 6.089 million tonnes and 5.9 million tonnes.