6.3% decline in industrial production in Jordan during seven months

Media In / Amman, September 16,
The General Statistics Department of Jordan revealed that the General Industrial Production Index for the first seven months of the year decreased by 6.3% compared to the same period of 2017.
The decrease was due to the decrease in the quantities of production of the manufacturing sector by 7.2 percent with a relative importance of 86.0 percent, and the quantities of electricity production by 3.0 percent, with a relative importance of 5.8 percent.
While the July index rose by 7.5% compared to the previous month. This was due to the increase in the quantities of production of the manufacturing sector by 6.1% with a relative importance of 86.0% and the quantities of electricity production by 14.9% with a relative importance of 5.8%.