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Qatar's industrial production dips in December 2022; beverages, food, petroleum products defy trend: PSA
February 21, 2023 | 01:10 PM
Qatar's industrial production was on the decline on an annualised basis in December 2022, even as production of beverages, food and refined petroleum products was on the rise, according to the latest official data.The country’s IPI or industrial production index declined 8.5% and 6.4% year-on-year and month-on-month respectively in the review period, said the figures released by the Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA).The PSA introduced IPI, a short-term quantitative index that measures the changes in the volume of production of a selected basket of industrial products over a given period with respect to a base period 2013.The mining and quarrying index, which has a relative weight of 82.46%, saw an 11.1% plunge surge on a yearly basis in December 2022 owing to an 11.1% decrease in the extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas, even as there was a 14.6% surge in other mining and quarrying sectors.On a monthly basis, the index shrank 7.7% on account of a 7.7% contraction in the extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas and 1.9% in other mining and quarrying sectors in the review period.The manufacturing index, with a relative weight of 15.85%, tanked 3.1% year-on-year in December 2022 owing to 15.3% shrinkage in the production of cement and other non-metallic mineral products, 11.3% in basic metals, 9.1% in printing and reproduction of recorded media, 2.6% in rubber and plastics products and 0.9% in chemicals and chemical related products.Nevertheless, there was a 20.4% increase in the production of beverages, 6.2% in food products and 5.2% in refined petroleum products in the review period.On a monthly basis, the manufacturing index was down 1.1% owing to a 4.1% reduction in the production of food products, 3.2% in chemicals and chemical products, 2.1% in beverages and 1% in rubber and plastics products in December 2022.However, there was a 3.6% jump in the production of cement and other non-metallic mineral products, 3% in basic metals, 1.9% in printing and reproduction of recorded media and 1.2% in refined petroleum products in the review period.Electricity, which has 1.16% weight in the IPI basket, saw its index zoom 25.3% year-on-year but shrank 32.4% month-on-month in December 2022.In the case of water, which has a 0.53% weight, the index saw a 69.2% and 4.3% increase year-on-year and month-on-month respectively last December.
February 21, 2023 | 01:10 PM