Jordan Industrial Production Drops 6.3% in July as Manufacturing Declines

Jordanian industrial production fell 6.3 percent in July from a year earlier as manufacturing and electricity output declined.

Manufacturing dropped 11.1 percent and electricity production decreased 6 percent, while mining leaped 143 percent, the Amman-based Department of Statistics said in an e-mailed statement today.

Industrial production decreased 1.3 percent from the previous month, the department said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Massoud A. Derhally in Beirut, Lebanon, at mderhally@bloomberg.net.

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