Manufacturing Production Rises by 7% in the Second Quarter of 2025, Driven by Improvements in Chemical, Food, and Automotive Industries
The producer price index for manufacturing, excluding oil refining, registered a 7% increase in the second quarter of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024.
The High Commission for Planning clarified in a news memorandum regarding the index of industrial, energy, and mining production that this development was primarily due to an increase in production in the chemical industry by 9.3%, the manufacture of other non-metallic products by 10.8%, food industries by 9.0%, tobacco products by 19.1%, automotive manufacturing by 5.6%, electrical equipment production by 16.3%, and mining by 17.2%.
Conversely, production in the clothing industry fell by 11.6%, in the manufacture of other transport equipment by 14.5%, in leather and footwear production by 9.1%, and in the production of rubber and plastic products by 3.2%.
As for the index of extractive industries, it increased by 16.8%, attributed to the rise recorded in other extractive industries by 17.4% and in iron metals by 0.1%.
The index for electrical energy production also saw an increase of 9.4%.
