Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Ireland boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in industrial production in the EU in January, at 27.5 percent, followed by Lithuania in second place, with 11.8 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Portugal reported the steepest year-on-year decline in industrial production in January, at 6.5 percent, while Malta recorded a 6.2 percent decrease, the agency's data showed.
Eurostat reported that industrial production in the EU as a whole rose by 0.3 percent in January in year-on-year terms, while the euro area recorded a 0.1 percent increase.
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose by 0.9 percent in January compared with the same month a year earlier.
(gs/pk)
Source: bankier.pl, europa.eu/eurostat