BULGARIA’S INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION INDEX UP 2% IN JANUARY

Bulgaria’s Industrial Production Index, seasonally adjusted, has increased by 2.0% in January 2015 as compared to December 2014, show the preliminary data of the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute (NSI).
In January 2015 working day adjusted Industrial Production Index rose by 1.7% in comparison with the same month of 2014.

In January 2015 as compared to December 2014, the seasonally adjusted Industrial Production Index increased in the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply by 6.5%, in the manufacturing by 0.8% and in the mining and quarrying industry by 0.3%.

The most significant increases of production in the manufacturing were registered in the manufacture of other transport equipment by 44.9%, in the repair and installation of machinery and equipment by 26.6%, in the manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c by 11.9%, in the manufacture of furniture by 11.2%, in the manufacture of rubber and plastic products by 10.4%. There were decreases in the manufacture of tobacco products by 9.6%, in the manufacture of leather and related products by 3.5%, in the manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations by 2.4%, and in the manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products by 2.3%.