Ammon News - The General Industrial Production Quantities Index edged up by 1.83 percent in January 2023, reaching 90.85 points against 89.21 points in the same month of 2022.

The growth was mainly attributed to a 2.02 percent increase in quantities of transformative industries and a 3.05 percent in extractive industries, while a 2.61 drop was recorded in electricity quantities, according to the Department of Statistics' (DoS) monthly report issued Tuesday.

In comparison to 87.19 points recorded in December 2022, the index rose by 4.19 percent to 90.85 points in January 2023.

The monthly increase was due to transformative industries going up by 2.24 percent, extractive industries by 23.60 percent, and electricity by 8.23 percent.