Manufacturing output declined 2.5% on the month in June, mining declined 0.75%, while the utilities sector grew 2.1%.

In unadjusted data, industrial output dropped 4.9% on the month in June.

Compared with June 2016, seasonally adjusted industrial output increased 11.1%, as mining output grew 12.3%, manufacturing output grew 11.4%, and the utilities sector declined 0.5%, the data showed.

In unadjusted terms, industrial output grew 8.9% in June compared with June 2016.

In January-June, Romania’s seasonally adjusted industrial output grew 8.9% compared with the same period last year.

Manufacturing grew 8.7% on the year in the first six months, the utilities sector grew 3.2%, and mining output grew 1.9%.

In unadjusted terms, the country’s industrial output grew 8% on the year in the first six months, the data showed.