 General PPI of June 2021 increased by 8.5% when compared with previous month (M-O-M).
 General PPI of June 2021, increased by 93.8% when compared with June,2020 (Y-O-Y).
 PPI of Crude Petroleum and Natural gas production increased by 9.7%, comparing with previous month.

 
Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA) has released the Monthly Producer Price Index (PPI) of the Industrial sector for June 2021 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 June 2021 for this sector showed an increase by 9.9% when compared with PPI of May 2021, primarily due to the price increase of “Crude petroleum and natural gas” by 9.7%, while “Stone, Sand and Clay” decreased by 0.8%. PPI of June 2021, when compared with its counterpart in previous year (June 2020), there was an increase of 119.5%. Graph (1) showed the monthly movement of “Mining” index during June 2020 and June 2021, and Graph (2) showed the monthly rate of change in General PPI and Mining.

 

Manufacturing
 An increase of 6.1% has been recorded in June 2021, when compared with the previous month’s Manufacturing index (May 2021). The prices increase is seen in: “Basic Chemicals” by 10.2%, followed by, “Refined Petroleum products” by 6.0%, “Cement and Other non-metallic products” by 2.5%, “Dairy products” by 1.2%, “Basic Metals” by 1.1%, “Juices” by 0.8%, “Beverages” by 0.7%. However decreasing prices are noticed in “Grain mill and Other products” by 0.4%, “Rubber and Plastics products” by 0.3%. no change is noticed in “Paper and Paper products” , and “Other chemical products and fibers”. 
 

Comparing with the index of counterpart in the previous year (June 2020), “Manufacturing” PPI of June 2021 showed an increase of 58.4%. The major groups which explain this price increase are: “Basic chemicals” by 88.5%, followed by “Refined Petroleum products” by 62.6%, “Basic Metals” by 33.0%, “Paper and Paper Products” by 15.3%, "Rubber and Plastics products” by 11.4%, "Juices" by 2.0%, “Other chemical products and fibers” by 1.8%, “Dairy products” by 0.5%, and “Beverages” by 0.3%. However, prices fall in “Cement and Other non-metallic products” by 6.6%, and “Grain mill and Other products” by 1.7%,
  

Electricity and Water
The PPI of this group showed an increase of 1.6% compared to June 2021, resulting from increase prices in “Water” by 4.3%, while prices “Electricity” are decreased by 1.0%. When compared the PPI of June 2021, to the PPI of June 2020 [Y-o-Y], showed an increase of 10.8%, affected by prices rise in “Water” by 13.3%, and “Electricity” by 8.2%.

Overall Index (PPI of Industrial sector)
The PPI for June,2021 is estimated at 71.3 points showing an increase of 8.5%, when compared to the previous month’s May 2021. On [Y-o-Y] basis, PPI of June 2021 showed an increase of 93.8% when compared to the PPI of June,2020. Graph (4) shows the monthly of PPI and monthly rate of change during June,2020 to June,2021, also table (1) includes the PPI of June 2020 with monthly and yearly comparisons.

Further detailed data and indices would be available on the website: www.psa.gov.qa