Informations Rapides · 10 June 2021 · n° 147
In April, manufacturing output fell back slightly (–0.3%) Industrial production index - April 2021

In April 2021, output decreased slowly in the manufacturing industry (–0.3%, after +0.6%), as well as in the whole industry (–0.1%, after +1.0%). Compared to February 2020 (the last month before the first general lockdown), output remained in sharp decline in the manufacturing industry (–6.6%), as well as in the whole industry (–5.5%).

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All series are seasonally (SA) and working-day adjusted (WDA).

In the following paragraphs, percentage changes by subsections are presented in descending order of their contribution to the overall percentage change of the industrial production index. The contribution of a subsection takes into account its weight and the magnitude of its evolution.

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In April 2021, output declined in most major industrial activities
Over a year, manufacturing output expanded (+15.3%)
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tableauMonthly Industrial Production Indices

2015 based, SA-WDA changes in %

Monthly Industrial Production Indices (2015 based, SA-WDA changes in %)
	C1	C3	C4	C5	CZ
January 2015	98.9	98.7	98.4	99.2	99.0
February 2015	98.0	97.2	102.8	99.3	99.4
March 2015	100.2	98.7	100.4	99.5	99.8
April 2015	99.8	99.8	97.7	100.0	99.6
May 2015	100.4	103.2	99.6	100.4	100.7
June 2015	100.8	103.0	100.4	99.6	100.3
July 2015	100.4	97.2	96.6	99.3	98.7
August 2015	99.9	99.7	102.9	99.4	99.9
September 2015	101.1	104.5	102.5	100.3	101.4
October 2015	100.3	101.5	102.1	100.0	100.6
November 2015	99.8	98.2	97.6	100.5	99.6
December 2015	100.4	98.3	99.1	102.6	101.1
January 2016	100.8	98.6	107.2	102.4	102.3
February 2016	99.8	100.4	105.5	99.7	100.6
March 2016	100.0	97.4	102.7	99.2	99.6
April 2016	98.3	98.3	108.2	100.2	100.8
May 2016	97.7	97.7	103.2	100.5	99.8
June 2016	97.5	96.2	105.0	99.4	99.1
July 2016	98.8	96.2	100.5	100.0	99.3
August 2016	100.1	100.0	104.7	101.1	101.2
September 2016	100.5	99.0	101.7	100.4	100.4
October 2016	99.1	95.2	104.6	98.6	99.1
November 2016	100.1	100.7	105.5	102.5	102.4
December 2016	99.6	100.2	103.8	100.7	101.0
January 2017	97.6	97.5	106.3	100.6	100.4
February 2017	98.9	99.9	103.5	101.2	100.8
March 2017	99.0	100.8	109.2	102.4	102.4
April 2017	98.4	100.4	103.4	102.1	101.4
May 2017	99.6	104.6	109.4	103.6	103.8
June 2017	99.1	101.8	106.1	103.4	102.9
July 2017	99.5	101.9	109.5	103.5	103.3
August 2017	100.4	100.7	113.5	102.6	103.4
September 2017	99.7	101.5	112.4	104.3	104.1
October 2017	99.3	104.9	112.5	105.7	105.3
November 2017	100.0	101.5	115.0	105.7	105.4
December 2017	99.1	106.1	112.9	107.0	106.3
January 2018	99.1	100.2	113.0	103.0	103.3
February 2018	98.8	99.9	107.5	102.9	102.4
March 2018	100.2	102.6	107.4	104.7	103.9
April 2018	99.7	98.2	113.7	104.8	103.9
May 2018	100.3	99.1	109.6	103.3	102.6
June 2018	99.3	100.6	114.4	105.3	104.7
July 2018	99.0	101.2	116.8	103.9	104.2
August 2018	100.3	101.7	114.0	105.3	105.0
September 2018	98.3	99.6	112.0	104.6	103.7
October 2018	99.3	102.7	110.7	105.3	104.6
November 2018	98.0	100.5	114.5	104.3	103.8
December 2018	99.4	99.1	119.8	105.4	105.2
January 2019	100.1	103.5	115.3	105.3	105.4
February 2019	99.3	103.3	115.1	106.3	105.8
March 2019	98.8	106.3	114.9	105.1	105.4
April 2019	100.0	107.2	111.0	105.0	105.0
May 2019	99.2	104.9	114.9	107.1	106.3
June 2019	99.0	103.2	110.0	104.9	104.0
July 2019	98.4	102.7	113.1	105.4	104.6
August 2019	98.2	99.8	113.0	104.4	103.6
September 2019	99.6	105.0	112.3	105.9	105.1
October 2019	99.0	102.3	109.4	107.0	104.7
November 2019	99.2	102.1	114.9	104.7	104.3
December 2019	99.0	98.1	108.2	103.5	102.1
January 2020	98.3	101.8	105.5	104.3	102.5
February 2020	99.5	103.2	108.4	105.9	104.2
March 2020	97.1	78.9	70.7	85.2	83.8
April 2020	88.9	60.8	37.7	66.3	65.2
May 2020	90.6	78.9	54.4	82.9	79.4
June 2020	96.6	91.1	75.1	93.9	91.0
July 2020	99.2	97.5	81.0	97.5	95.0
August 2020	97.3	93.5	84.0	99.5	95.5
September 2020	97.7	96.3	93.3	100.7	98.0
October 2020	97.0	97.3	90.6	102.2	98.5
November 2020	97.5	99.7	92.5	102.6	99.4
December 2020	95.5	96.2	93.9	102.1	98.2
January 2021	99.2	104.2	91.1	105.8	101.6
February 2021	97.4	98.9	80.9	101.7	97.1
March 2021	98.3	100.0	81.1	102.1	97.7
April 2021	97.6	100.5	80.5	101.7	97.3

Legend: CZ: Manufacturing - (C1): Manufacture of food products and beverages - (C3): Machinery and equipment goods - (C4): Manufacture of transport equipment - (C5): Other manufacturing
Source: Insee, SSP, SDES.

graphiqueMonthly Industrial Production Indices

Chargement en cours — Legend: CZ: Manufacturing - (C1): Manufacture of food products and beverages - (C3): Machinery and equipment goods - (C4): Manufacture of transport equipment - (C5): Other manufacturing.

*Source: Insee, SSP, SDES.*

In April 2021, output declined in most major industrial activities

In April, output decreased slightly in “other manufacturing” (–0.3% after +0.4%), in the manufacture of food products and beverages (–0.7% after +1.0%) and in the manufacture of transport equipment (–0.7% after +0.3%). After three consecutive months of increases, output also decreased in the manufacture of coke and refined petroleum (−1.0% after +4.8%). On the contrary, it grew again in mining and quarrying, energy, water supply (+1.3% after +3.1%) and in the manufacture of machinery and equipment goods (+0.5% after +1.0%).

In April 2021, output remained in sharp decline compared to its February 2020 level in most industrial activities. It slumped in the manufacture of transport equipment (−25.7%), slightly more strongly in the manufacture of other transport equipment (−27.3%) than in the manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers (−23.3%). It also plummeted in the manufacture of coke and refined petroleum (−17.7%). Compared to February 2020, output diminished more moderately in the manufacture of food products and beverages (–1.9%), in the manufacture of machinery and equipment goods (−2.6%) and in “other manufacturing” (−4.0%). Output was above its February 2020 level in mining and quarrying, energy, water supply (+1.0%).

tableauVariation in the Industrial Production

2015 based, SA–WDA changes in %

Variation in the Industrial Production (2015 based, SA–WDA changes in %)
NA : A10, (A17), [A38 or A64]	April 2021	April 2021 / March 2021	March 2021 / Feb. 2021	April 2021 / Feb. 2020	Quarter–on–quarter change (3)	Year–on–year change (4)
BE: INDUSTRY	97.6	–0.1	1.0	–5.5	–2.0	13.9
CZ: Manufacturing	97.3	–0.3	0.6	–6.6	–2.4	15.3
(C1): Man. of food products and beverages	97.6	–0.7	1.0	–1.9	0.4	2.7
(C2): Man. of coke and refined petroleum products	55.5	–1.0	4.8	–17.7	5.5	4.6
(C3): Machinery and equipment goods	100.5	0.5	1.0	–2.6	–0.3	23.3
[CI] Man. of computer, electronic and optical products	104.1	0.3	3.2	–4.5	–1.8	13.4
[CJ] Man. of electrical equipment	97.2	0.2	–2.3	2.2	3.8	33.3
[CK] Man. of machinery and equipment n.e.c. (1)	98.6	1.0	0.9	–3.4	–1.0	29.2
(C4): Man. of transport equipment	80.5	–0.7	0.3	–25.7	–12.6	11.9
[CL1] Man. of motor vehicles, trailers and semi–trailers	78.9	–5.9	–5.9	–23.3	–14.0	55.7
[CL2] Man. of other transport equipment	81.8	3.2	5.5	–27.3	–11.6	–7.8
(C5): Other manufacturing	101.7	–0.3	0.4	–4.0	–1.6	18.7
[CB] Man. of textiles, wearing apparel, leather and related products	94.0	–1.5	1.7	–8.2	–3.0	33.3
[CC] Man. of wood and paper products; printing and reproduction of recorded media	93.4	–0.4	–0.3	–7.6	–1.6	10.6
[CE] Man. of chemicals and chemical products	103.5	–2.2	3.4	–3.5	–3.3	10.8
[CF] Man. of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations	114.0	–6.3	–3.2	–2.6	–4.5	–2.5
[CG] Man. of rubber and plastics products, and other nonmetallic mineral products	101.7	0.2	0.4	–4.8	–1.8	33.0
[CH] Man. of basic metals and fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment	94.1	0.7	–0.5	–6.0	–1.4	30.0
[CM] Other manufacturing; repair and installation of machinery and equipment	107.2	2.7	0.9	–0.6	1.2	20.4
DE: Mining and quarrying; energy; water supply; waste management	98.8	1.3	3.1	1.0	–0.1	6.4
[BZ] Mining and quarrying	100.9	–3.6	0.1	–0.9	0.0	44.6
[DZ] Electricity, gas, steam and air–conditioning supply	99.4	2.1	3.3	1.6	–0.1	5.7
[EZ] Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation	91.8	–3.3	2.8	–3.4	–0.2	–0.2
FZ: CONSTRUCTION	95.6	–0.8	–1.7	–6.1	–1.8	45.1
MIGs (2)
Capital goods	95.6	0.6	1.6	–10.5	–3.9	17.8
Intermediate goods	97.7	0.3	0.1	–4.0	–1.9	20.7
Consumer durables	106.2	–1.5	–4.4	–6.0	–1.0	62.2
Consumer non–durables	100.9	–2.3	0.2	–3.9	–1.3	5.1
Energy	95.4	1.4	3.2	0.1	0.1	5.1

(1) n.e.c. : not elsewhere classifiable
(2) Main industrial groupings: definition in Commission regulation EC of 14 June 2007
(3) Last three months / previous three months
(4) Last three months / same three months of previous year
// Not available
Sources: INSEE, SSP, SDES

Over a year, manufacturing output expanded (+15.3%)

Cumulative output over the last three months was higher than that of the same months of 2020 in the manufacturing industry (+15.3%), as well as in the whole industry (+13.9%).

Over this one-year period, because of a significant “base effect” due to the first general lockdown in March and April 2020, output increased sharply in “other manufacturing” (+18.7%) and in the manufacture of machinery and equipment goods (+23.3%). It was also up significantly in the manufacture of transport equipment (+11.9%). It grew more modestly in mining and quarrying, energy, water supply (+6.4%), in the manufacture of food products and beverages (+2.7%) and in the manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products (+4.6%).

tableauRevision of variations

(in percentage point)

Revision of variations ((in percentage point))
	March / Feb.	Feb. / Jan.	Jan. / Dec.	Q1 2021 / Q4 2020	2020 / 2019
Industry (BE)	0.20	0.20	0.04	0.25	0.00
raw serie	0.53	0.18	0.00	0.29	0.01
SA–WDA parameters	–0.33	0.02	0.04	–0.04	–0.01
Manufacturing (CZ)	0.20	0.30	0.04	0.31	0.01
raw serie	0.51	0.21	0.02	0.31	0.01
SA–WDA parameters	–0.31	0.09	0.02	0.00	0.00

How to read it: in the manufacturing sector, the SA–WDA variation between February and March 2021 is revised by +0.20 points, +0.51 points are due to the revision of the raw series and –0.31 points to the updating of the SA–WDA parameters.
Sources: INSEE, SSP, SDES