The Department of Statistics issued its monthly report on the Industrial Production Index, which indicates a rise in the General Industrial Production Index for the month of March 2019 to 87.1 compared to 85.4 for the same month of 2018, recording a rise of 2.0%. This is due to the increase in the index of production quantities of the manufacturing sector by 1.51 percentage points with a relative importance of 86.0% and the electricity production index by 0.53 percentage points with a relative importance of 5.8%. The Extractive Industries Production Index decreased by 0.09 percentage points, with a relative importance of 8.2%. 

The report also indicates that the industrial production index for the month of March 2019 rose to 87.1 from 84.7 in February of the same year, an increase of 2.9%. 

This is due to the increase in the index of production quantities of the manufacturing sector by 2.14 percentage points with a relative importance of 86.0%, the index of quantities of extractive industries by 0.38 percentage points, whose relative importance is 8.2%, and the electricity production index by 0.35 percentage points, Its relative importance is 5.8%. 

Comparing the indices for the first three months of 2019 shows a decline in the industrial production index to 87.7 compared to 88.0 for the same period of 2018, with the industrial production index falling by 0.4%. This decline resulted from a decrease in the manufacturing production index by 0.77 percentage points, with a relative importance of 86.0%. While the index of quantities of production of extractive industries increased by 0.08 percentage points with a relative importance of 8.2%, and the index of quantities of electricity production by 0.30 percentage points, with a relative importance of 5.8%.

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