As European economies emerge from the coronavirus shock, Ireland boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in industrial production in the 27-nation European Union in September, at 45.4 percent, followed by Belgium in second place, with 23.1 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Slovakia reported the steepest year-on-year decrease in industrial production in September, at 4.9 percent, while Portugal recorded a 1.7 percent drop, the agency's data showed.
The agency said industrial production in the EU as a whole grew by 5 percent in September in year-on-year terms, while the euro area recorded a 5.2 percent increase as the coronavirus crisis receded.
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 8.8 percent in September compared with the same month a year earlier.
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Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat