Industrial production grows by 10.8% in August Y-Y

According to the preliminary data in August 2021, the  Industrial Production Index, seasonally adjusted, increased by 1.8 per cent compared with July 2021, the National Statistical Institute said on Friday.  

In August 2021, the calendar adjusted Industrial Production Index rose by 10.8 per cent in comparison with the same month of  2020.

In  August  2021 month-on-month, the  seasonally  adjusted Industrial  Production  Index  rose  in  the mining and quarrying industry by 17.6 per cent, in manufacturing by 1.1 percent, and in the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply by 1 per cent.

On an annual basis in August 2021, the Industrial Production Index calculated from calendar adjusted data rose in the electricity,  gas,  steam  and  air  conditioning  supply  by 19.9 per cent, in the mining and quarrying  industry  by 15.8 per cent and in the manufacturing by 8.9 per cent.