Turkey leaves EU behind in industrial production growth with 3.4 %

In April, Turkey left 25 countries of European Union and whole Euro region behind, where a decline of 0.8 percentage in EU and 0.3 % decrease in Euro region took place. Inactivity continued in European industry production of April, where it rose 0.3 % on a monthly basis but receded 0.8 % on a yearly basis, according to the data AA compiled from Eurostat and Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat).    

Turkish industrial production grew 1.3 % in April compared to March and 3.4 % compared to last year's April. Biggest economy of Europe Germany's industrial production increased 1.2 %, whereas France with 0.1%, Italy with 4.6, Spain with 1.8 and Britain with 2.6 % decreased.

Amongst the EU countries, in which industrial production on yearly basis increased most, were Romania with 12.6 % and Lithuania with 5 %. On monthly basis, most industrial production increased in Norway with 5.4 %, Ireland with 3%, France with 2.3 and Romania with 1.9 %. Turkey was 5th with an increase of 1.3 %.

On yearly basis in EU countries, Finland became the country with most decrease in industrial production. Finland with a percentage of 10.2, Norway with 5.3 % and Italy with 4.6 % regressed in industrial production. Most declining countries on monthly basis were Norway with 5.1 %, Netherlands with 4.3 % and Portugal with 3.6 %.

April's industrial production index rates are as following: