Egypt’s production index for transformative and extractive industries up in August

CAIRO - 23 October 2018: Egypt’s production index for transformative and extractive industries, excluding crude oil and petroleum products, recorded 122.25 during August 2018 against 121.43 a month earlier with a rise of 0.7 percent, said the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) on Tuesday.

The production index of ready-to-wear clothes registered 246.33 in August 2018 compared with 199.49 in July, at a 23.5 percent uptick.

The index of pharmaceutical and chemical products declined to 136.42 in August, down 10.1 percent from 151.76 for July, the report said.