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Polish industrial production up 1.3% y/y in July: Eurostat

16.09.2024 00:15
Poland's industrial production rose by 1.3 percent in July, compared with the same month a year earlier, the European Union’s statistics agency has reported.
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Denmark boasted the largest year-on-year increase in seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU in Julyat 19.8 percent, followed by Greece in second place, with 10.8 percent, and Finland in third place, with 6.4 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.

Among member states for which data were available, Hungary reported the steepest annual decrease in industrial production in July, at 6.4 percentwhile Estonia recorded a 5.8 percent drop, the agency's data showed.

The agency said on Friday that seasonally-adjusted industrial production in the EU as a whole decreased by 1.7 percent in July in year-on-year terms.

Poland’s statistics office, which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production increased 4.9 percent in July compared with the same month a year earlier.

Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production went up by 2.2 percent in year-on-year terms in July, while decreasing 0.2 percent month on month, the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.

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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat