Bulgarian Industrial Output Down in May

Production of investment goods and energy shrank, while that of intermediate goods increased. Photo by BGNES

Bulgaria's industrial production marked a 0.4% increase year-on-year in May, the statistics office said Friday.

Manufacturing output rose 2.4%, while the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply production declined 4.7%, data showed.

Production in the mining and quarrying industry went down by by 2.9%. Production of investment goods and energy shrank, while that of intermediate goods increased.

Month-on-month, industrial output dropped 0.9% in May with production falling 14.3% in the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply segment.

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