La production industrielle en hausse – Le Jeune Indépendant

In its latest note on industrial production in the 2nd quarter of 2025, the National Statistics Office (ONS) reported the increase in national public sector industrial production of 6.3%. Almost all sectors contributed to this upward trend in production.

Industrial production in the national public sector recorded an increase of 6.3% in the second quarter of 2025, better than that recorded during the same period of 2024 (3.8%), the ONS said.

According to a press release from the National Statistics Office, “the energy sector shows an increase of 9.2%, close to that observed in the same period of the previous year (10.2%)”, specifying that after four quarters marked by stability and moderate declines, the hydrocarbons sector “displays a positive variation of 1.5% in the second quarter of 2025”. This improvement results, mainly, from the crude oil and natural gas production branch (+3.0%) and the refining branch (+6.2%), it was specified.

For the mining and quarrying sector, a rebound in production was noted during this second quarter of the current year, reaching a rate of 1.2% compared to a drop of 3.7% observed in the previous quarter, after an upward trend defining the year 2023 and the year 2024.

Same trend for construction materials which recorded a remarkable increase of 16.7% during the same period, thus confirming the performances observed from the first quarter of 2024, according to the ONS.

The chemical industries, for their part, have recovered and posted a positive variation of 2.5% compared to a drop of 11.1% recorded in the previous quarter, according to data from the ONS, which specifies that the leather and wood sectors “continue to progress and display respective rates of +40.7% and 131.6%, well beyond those recorded in the previous quarter (+13.7% and +91.1%), respectively”.

However, declines were recorded in the rest of the sectors of a smaller scale than those recorded in the previous quarter, namely the ISMMEE sector (steel, metal, mechanical, electrical and electronic industries) which posted a rate of -1.8%, the agro-food sector (-4.7%) and textiles (-10.4%).