Monthly Producer Price Index of Industrial Sector February 2017(Base year 2013=100)
  •  General PPI of February 2017, increased by 1.8 % when compared with previous month.
  •  PPI of Crude Petroleum and Natural gas increased by 1.4%, comparing with previous month.
  •  PPI of Manufacturing increased by 2.5%, when compared with previous month.

Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS) has released the Monthly Producer Price Index (PPI) of the Industrial sector for February 2017 with the base year 2013. Producer price index covers goods relating to “Mining” (weight: 72.7%), “Manufacturing” (weight: 26.8%), and “Electricity & Water” (weight: 0.5%).


Mining:The PPI of February, 2017 shows an increase of 1.4% when compared with PPI of January 2017, primarily due to the increase of prices of “Crude petroleum and natural gas”. PPI of February 2017, when compared with its counterpart in the previous year, there has been a considerable increase of 39.3%. Figure (1) & (2) shows the monthly movement of “Mining” index during February 2016 and February 2017.

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