The Industrial Production Index registered a growth of 2% in September compared to the same month in 2024, but a reduction of 1.0 percentage points (pp) when compared to August, the National Statistics Institute (INE) announced this Friday, October 31st. It was the Energy grouping that guaranteed this positive performance.
According to INE, the large industrial groups showed different developments in September. The Energy group “presented the most influential contribution to the variation in the total index (2.1 pp), caused by a variation rate of 15.3%”, he says.
Intermediate Goods went from a year-on-year variation of 0.9% in August to 2.9% in September. Negative behavior was seen in the Consumer Goods group, which contributed -1.1 pp, as a result of a variation rate of -3.5%.
The analysis of the monthly variation concludes with an increase of 0.6% in September, with the group of Intermediate Goods presenting the most intense contribution to the variation of the total index, 0.9 pp, which gave rise to a variation rate of 2.8%, reveals INE.
The Investment Goods and Energy groups contributed with -0.3 pp and -0.2 pp, as a result of monthly variations of -1.5% and -1.0%.