Increase industrial production index in the first half of the current year
Al Anbat –
Rahaf Qawasmi
The general index of industrial production
quantities increased in the first half of the current year by 4.32 percent, to
reach 92.16 points, compared to 88.34 points for the same period last year.
The Department of General Statistics
indicated in its monthly report issued on Sunday, that this growth resulted
from an increase in the production index of the manufacturing sector by 3.55,
whose relative importance constitutes 86.01 percent, and the index of
production quantities of the extractive industries sector by 9.10, whose
relative importance constitutes 8.22 percent. And the index for the quantities
of electricity production is 9.82, and its relative importance is 5.76 percent.
The report indicated that the general index
of industrial production quantities for the month of June of this year
increased by 0.79 percent, to reach a point of 94.22, compared to 93.47 for the
same month last year.