As the COVID-19 pandemic relents, Italy boasted the fastest year-on-year growth in industrial production in the EU in April, at 79.5 percent, followed by Slovakia in second place, with 69.1 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.
Among member states for which data were available, Finland reported the smallest year-on-year increase in industrial production in April, at 3.1 percent, while Estonia recorded a 6.7 percent rise, the agency's data showed.
Industrial production increased in all member states for which data were available, Eurostat reported on Monday.
The agency said industrial production in the EU as a whole grew by 38.7 percent in April in year-on-year terms, while the euro area recorded a 39.3 percent increase as the coronavirus ebbs.
Poland’s Central Statistical Office (GUS), which uses a different methodology, reported last month that Polish industrial production rose 44.5 percent in April compared with the same month a year earlier.
(gs/pk)
Source: PAP, europa.eu/eurostat