Manufacturing production increased 12.1% on the year in the first six months of 2014, but output in the mining and energy sectors declined 1.2% and 1.1% on the year, respectively. The data are adjusted for the number of working days and seasonal factors.
In unadjusted data, Romanian industrial production rose 9.1% year-on-year in the first half.
In June alone, the adjusted industrial output inched down 0.7% on the month, on declining production in all sectors, but was up 11.5% from the same month of 2013.