The Industrial Producers’ Prices Index picked up by 4.48 percent in January 2023, amounting to 135.84 points against 130.02 in the same month last year. A report issued Tuesday by the Department of Statistics (DoS) said this upward trend comes as a result of a 3.and3 percent increase in the transformative industries prices index and a 23.86 percent increase in the extractive industries prices index, while the prices index of electricity dropped by 8.80 percent. On a monthly level, the index declined by 2.61 percent in January 2023, reaching135.84 points against 139.48 points in December 2022. The main contributors to the monthly decrease were transformative industries retreating by 3.02 percent, followed by electricity prices index by 0.36 percent, while extractive industries prices went up by 0.20 percent.
Source: Jordan News Agency