Costs of Corrosion in Other Countries

There is a brief account of the costs of corrosion in other countries such as West Germany (1969), Finland and Sweden (1965), and India (1961). 

1 West Germany A study of the costs of corrosion was conducted at the end of the 1960s. The total cost of corrosion was estimated to be 19 billion Deutsch Marks (DM) (U.S. 6 billion) for the period 1968-1969. Of this cost, 4.3 billion DM (U.S. 1.5 billion) was estimated to be avoidable. Thus, the total cost of corrosion equivalent to 3% of the West German GNP for 1969 and avoidable costs were roughly 25% of the total corrosion costs (10). 

2 Finland and Sweden Finland conducted a study of the cost of corrosion in 1965, and the cost of corrosion was estimated to be between 150 and 200 million markka (U.S. 47 million and U.S. 62 million) for the year 1965. Linder-borg referred to these losses in the paper describing factors that must be taken into account in assessing corrosion cost (11) to Finland. 

Linderborg quotes a partial study of the corrosion costs in Sweden, in which painting expenses to combat corrosion were analyzed for the year 1964. These costs amounted to 300 00 million crowns (U.S. 58-75 million) of which 25-35% were found to be avoidable. 

3 India (1961) India conducted a study of corrosion in 1961. The cost of corrosion was estimated (12) at 1.54 billion rupees (U.S. 320 million) for the period 1960-1961. This estimate was based on calculations of expenditures for certain measures to prevent or control corrosion, including direct material and labor expenses for protection, additional costs for increased corrosion resistance and redundancy, cost of information transfer, and funds spent on research and development. 

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The cost of corrosion in other countries in the world is given in Table 1.4. 

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