Lithuania boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in industrial production in the EU in January, at 24.7 percent, followed by Austria in second place, with 17.3 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Ireland reported the steepest year-on-year decrease in industrial production in January, at 20 percent, while Portugal recorded a 4.2 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said industrial production in the EU as a whole grew by 0.4 percent in January in year-on-year terms, while the euro area recorded a 1.3 percent decrease.
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 19.2 percent in January compared with the same month a year earlier.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat