Industrial production in Argentina contracted by 2.3% year-on-year in June 2023, marking a deceleration from the previous month's 1.1% increase. This decline extends a four-month trend and marks the first reduction in industrial growth since February of the same year. The slowdown was primarily driven by decreases in food and beverages output (-4.2% vs 0% in May), other equipment, devices, and instruments (-20.3% vs -4.0%), machinery and equipment (-5.5% vs -2.9%), wood, paper, publishing, and printing (-2.6% vs -4.8%), and non-metallic mineral products (-3.3% vs -5.3%). On the other hand, production rose at a slower pace for basic metals (+2.8% vs +9.2%) and oil refining, coke, and nuclear fuel (+2.7% vs +3.8%). On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, industrial production dropped by 1.3 percent. source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (INDEC)
Industrial Production in Argentina averaged 2.07 percent from 1995 until 2023, reaching an all time high of 56.20 percent in April of 2021 and a record low of -33.20 percent in April of 2020. This page provides the latest reported value for - Argentina Industrial Production - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Argentina Industrial Production - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on August of 2023.
Industrial Production in Argentina is expected to be 2.10 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Argentina Industrial Production is projected to trend around 2.00 percent in 2024, according to our econometric models.