Khaberni - The Department of Statistics issued its monthly report on the general index of industrial producers' prices, which observed a decline in the industrial producers' prices for the first eight months of the current year, by 0.54% (less than one percentage point) compared with the same period of 2024.
On a monthly basis, the general index of industrial producer prices decreased by 0.75% for the month of August compared with the corresponding month of 2024, and decreased by 0.46% compared with the previous month of the same year, noting that the base year was adjusted to (2018=100) instead of (2010=100).
Therefore, the index of industrial producers' prices for the first eight months of the current year amounted to 106.81 percentage points compared to 107.38 for the same period of 2024.
On a monthly basis, the index for the past month of August amounted to 106.56 compared to 107.37 for the same month of 2024, and the index for industrial producers’ prices for the same month amounted to 106.56 compared to 107.05 when compared with the previous month of the same year.
Comparing the cumulative index for the first eight months of the current year with the same period from 2024, the prices of manufacturing industries decreased by 0.80%, representing a relative importance of 88.74%, while the prices of extractive industries increased by 2.37%, representing a relative importance of 5.36%, and electricity prices increased by 0.84%, representing a relative importance of 5.91%.
On the commodity level, the decline in the index for the month of August last year compared with the same month of 2024 was contributed by a decrease in the prices of manufacturing industries by 1.43%, which represent a relative importance of 88.74%, while prices of extractive industries increased by 9.60%, which represent a relative importance of 5.36%, and electricity prices increased by 0.57%, which represent a relative importance of 5.91%.
On a month-to-month basis, the general index for the prices of industrial producers for the past month of August decreased compared with the month before it due to the decline in the prices of manufacturing industries by 0.60%, which represent a relative importance of 88.74%, and electricity prices by 0.64%, which represent a relative importance of 5.91%, while prices of extractive industries increased by 2.03%, which represent a relative importance of 5.36%.
