Output in the manufacturing sector rose 7.5% last year, while mining production was up 1% compared with 2013. However, production in the utility sector went down 4.7% year-on-year.
By large industrial groups, production increased in the capital goods sector (11.4%), durable goods sector (8.6%), intermediary goods sector (3.9%) and consumer goods sector (3.2%), but fell by 2.6% in the energy sector.
In December alone, Romania’s industrial output fell against the previous month, again due to the evolution of the manufacturing sector. Production went down 0.3% in compared with November, in data adjusted for the number of working days and seasonal factors. Compared with December 2013, the adjusted industrial output was up 3.1%.
In unadjusted data, Romanian industrial production went down 13.1% on the month in December, and was 3.1% higher than in the same period of 2013.