30 Jul 2021 - 9:36
The Peninsula
The overall monthly Index Producer Price Index (PPI) of Qatar’s industrial sector for June 2021 was estimated at 71.3 points, showing an increase of 8.5 percent when compared to the PPI of the previous month (May 2021).
When compared on year-on-year [Y-o-Y] basis, the PPI of June 2021 showed an increase of 93.8 percent against PPI of the corresponding month last year (June,2020), official data released by the Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA) showed Producer price index covers goods relating to “Mining” (weight: 72.7 percent), “Manufacturing” (weight: 26.8 percent), and “Electricity & Water” (weight: 0.5 percent).
The mining sector PPI of June 2021 for this sector showed an increase by 9.9 percent when compared with PPI of May 2021, primarily due to the price increase of “Crude petroleum and natural gas” by 9.7 percent, while “Stone, Sand and Clay” decreased by 0.8 percent. PPI of June 2021, when compared with