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Spain's industrial production rises by 3.2 pct in 2015

Xinhua, February 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

Spain's industrial production rose by 3.2 percent on average in 2015, according to the Index of Industrial Production (IPI) published on Monday by Spain's Statistical Office (INE).

The country' industrial production grew for the second year in a row in 2015 following a 1.5 percent rise in 2014, when it recorded the first growth since the financial crisis in 2007.

In 2015, production of consumer goods grew by 1.3 percent, with production of durable consumer goods and production of non-durable consumer goods rising by 3.2 percent and 1.2 percent, respectively.

Production of capital goods, intermediate goods, and energy grew by 6.9 percent, 4.1 percent, and 0.7 percent, respectively.

Meanwhile, in December alone, Spain's industrial production rose by 2.9 percent year-on-year, while on a month-to-month basis, the country's industrial production fell by 0.2 percent. Endit