Polish industrial production down 2% y/y in February: stats office

Industrial production in Poland fell 2 percent in February compared with the same month a year earlier, the country’s statistics office said on Thursday.

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Analysts surveyed by state news agency PAP had forecast a smaller decline, underestimating it by 0.8 percentage points.

In month-on-month terms, Polish industrial production in February was 0.4 percent lower than in January, the Statistics Poland (GUS) agency reported.

Meanwhile, the country's seasonally-adjusted industrial production inched up by 0.1 percent in year-on-year terms in February, while decreasing 0.2 percent month on month, the state-run statistics office said.

In February 2025 #IndustryProductionSold was lower than at the same period of the previous year by 2.0%. Excluding the impact of seasonal factors, there was a increase in production of 0.1% YoY.https://t.co/g93HintQwn#StatPoland #production #economy #ProductionDynamics pic.twitter.com/LuVYzU3b6S

— Statistics Poland (@StatPoland) March 20, 2025

According to the European Union's Eurostat statistics agency, which uses a different methodology, Poland's seasonally-adjusted industrial production dropped 1 percent in January compared with the same month in 2024.

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Source: IAR, PAP