Manufacturing output declined 2% on the month in April, while mining grew 4.7%, and the utilities sector grew 1.3%.
In unadjusted data, industrial output declined 15.2% on the month in April.
Compared with April 2016, seasonally adjusted industrial output increased 5.5%, as manufacturing output grew 3.5%, mining output grew 2.6%, while the utilities sector decreased 0.4%, the data showed.
In unadjusted terms, industrial output declined 0.6% in April compared with April 2016.
In January-April, Romania’s seasonally adjusted industrial output grew 6.5% compared with the same period last year. Manufacturing grew 5.9% on the year in January-April, the utilities sector grew 4.7%, and mining output dropped 3.3%.
In unadjusted terms, the country’s industrial output grew 5.4% on the year in January-April, the data showed.