Goiás leads industrial production in the country.

Goiás 247 – A survey by IBGE released this Friday, October 8th, highlights Goiás' performance in industrial production in September. The state registered an expansion of 4,6%, compared to 2,7% in August. This marks the fifth consecutive month of growth in the sector, a period in which Goiás has accumulated an increase of 7,3%.

Research shows that nine of the 14 states surveyed by the Institute reported positive growth rates in September, with eight showing growth above the national average, notably Goiás. These figures were highlighted this morning on Twitter by the State Secretariat of Industry and Commerce, headed by Alexandre Baldy.

Compared to the same month last year, the expansion was led by Goiás (12,8%), followed by Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, Ceará, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro. On a quarterly basis, the state, along with Pará and Paraná, showed the main gains in pace between the two periods (first and second quarter of the year), from 4,1% to 9,0%. 

See below the data released by IBGE:

Industrial production grew in six of the 14 locations surveyed in September.

The increase in the pace of national industrial production from August to September, in seasonally adjusted terms, was observed in six of the 14 locations surveyed, with Bahia (6,8%), Rio de Janeiro (4,4%) and Goiás (4,1%) standing out. With this month's results, the first location recovered part of the 8,6% loss recorded last July, the second eliminated the 4,3% drop accumulated in the months of July and August, and the third marked the fifth consecutive month of growth in production, a period in which it accumulated an expansion of 7,3%.

Minas Gerais (2,1%), Espírito Santo (1,8%), both with growth above the national average (0,7%), and Rio Grande do Sul (0,4%) completed the set of locations with positive rates in that month. On the other hand, Pernambuco, with a drop of 8,2%, showed the most pronounced decline in September and marked the third consecutive month of falling production, accumulating a reduction of 12,1% in that period. The other negative results were observed in Paraná (-2,4%), Ceará (-2,2%), São Paulo (-2,1%), Amazonas (-1,9%), the Northeast Region (-1,4%), Santa Catarina (-0,9%) and Pará (-0,2%).

Compared to the same month of the previous year, the expansion observed in national production reached eight of the 14 surveyed locations in September 2013, with seven advancing above the national average (2,0%): Goiás (12,8%), Paraná (11,3%), Rio Grande do Sul (8,8%), Santa Catarina (5,8%), Ceará (4,5%), Bahia (4,3%), and Rio de Janeiro (3,5%). Espírito Santo, with a growth of 1,6%, also showed a positive rate in that month. It is worth mentioning that September 2013 (21 days) had two more working days than the same month of the previous year (19). On the other hand, Pernambuco (-7,5%), Pará (-3,5%), Amazonas (-3,4%), the Northeast Region (-1,7%), São Paulo (-1,0%), and Minas Gerais (-0,8%) registered negative results in the monthly index for September 2013.

On a quarterly basis, the industrial sector, advancing 0,8% in the third quarter of the year, maintains a positive result for the second consecutive quarter, but with a reduction in the intensity of growth, since in the April-June 2013 period an expansion of 4,4% was observed, both comparisons against the same periods of the previous year. In regional terms, nine of the 14 locations showed positive rates, but eight lost momentum in the transition from the April-June period to July-September, notably Pernambuco (from 4,3% to -1,7%), São Paulo (from 5,2% to -0,3%), Amazonas (from 5,4% to 0,5%), Bahia (from 9,6% to 5,5%), the Northeast Region (from 5,1% to 1,0%) and Minas Gerais (from 1,2% to -2,2%). On the other hand, Pará (from -14,3% to -1,6%), Goiás (from 4,1% to 9,0%) and Paraná (from 6,4% to 10,9%) showed the main gains in pace between the two periods.