Rio de Janeiro – Industrial production increased in January from December of last year in eight out of 14 localities in Brazil, as per a survey by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). States with the biggest increases were Santa Catarina at 3.7% and Pará at 3.3%, according to numbers from the Monthly Industrial Survey – Regional Physical Production.
Industry output also grew in six other localities: Bahia (2.6%), Rio Grande do Sul (2.5%), Ceará (2.4%), Paraná (2.2%), the Northeast (1.5%) and São Paulo (1.1%). Conversely, production slowed in six states, despite a 0.4% overall increment in the national average: Pernambuco, Amazonas and Espírito Santo (with a 2.1% drop in all three states), Rio de Janeiro (down 2.1%), Goiás and Minas Gerais (output was down 1% in both).
Year-on-year in January, production declined in 12 of 15 areas, with the sharpest drops seen in Amazonas (-30.9%), Pernambuco (-29.4%) and Espírito Santo (-26.3%), and increase in only three states: Pará (10.5%), Bahia (10.3%) and Mato Grosso (9.3%).
In the 12 months ended January, industrial output also dropped in 12 out of 15 localities surveyed, especially Amazonas (-18.4%), São Paulo (-11.7%) and Rio Grande do Sul (-11.3%). It increased in three states: Mato Grosso (4.8%), Pará (4%) and Espírito Santo (0.6%).
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
