Industrial production and trade in Colombia grew slightly in February 2023

Inspenet, April 21, 2023

The National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane) of Colombia, reported that, in February 2023 compared to February 2022, the real production of the manufacturing industry presented a variation of 0.4%, real sales of -1.1% and employed personnel of 1.3%.

Of the 39 industrial activities represented by the survey, a total of 15 registered 0 positive variations in their real production, adding 3.6 percentage points to the total annual variation, and 24 subsectors with negative variations subtracted a total of 3.3 percentage points from the variation. total.

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Behavior of sectors in production

The sectors that boosted the figure in the case of production were: the manufacture of bodies for motor vehicles (45.8%), followed by coking, oil refining and fuel blending (24.3%) and in third place the manufacture of soaps and detergents, perfumes and toilet preparations (21%) was located.

On the contrary, those that presented negative variation were: the manufacture of travel articles, handbags and similar articles in leather (40.8%), in second place, were the basic industries of precious and non-ferrous metals (26, 9%) and the manufacture of other types of transport equipment (18.4%).

According to Dane, so far this year until February 2023, the real production of the manufacturing industry presented a variation of 0.4%, real sales of -0.3% and employed personnel of 1.4%.

And during the last twelve months until February 2023, the real production of the manufacturing industry presented a variation of 8.7%, real sales of 8.0% and employed personnel of 3.7%.

Trade in Colombia barely grew 0.1% in February: Dane

Dane’s monthly survey revealed the result of retail trade which, in the case of real sales, presented growth of 0.1% and employed personnel grew 4.3% in relation to the same month in 2022.

On the other hand, in the case of fuel trade, the variation in real sales in the sector was 1.4%, a figure that Dane provides separately.

If the results of February 2023 are compared with those of February 2019, an increase of 20.9% in retail sales is evident, and in relation to employed personnel, a growth of 2.4%.

Source : https://www.valoraanalitik.com/2023/04/14/produccion-industrial-y-comercio-en-colombia-crecieron-levemente-en-febrero-2023/

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