The National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane) andDelivered the results for the month of April of industry and commerce, which showed a favorable dynamic and continued with positive variations in the fourth month of the year.
(Industry and commerce, with double-digit increases to March).
In April 2022 vs. April 2021, the real production of the manufacturing industry presented a variation of 13.5%, the real sales saw an increase of 14.6% and the employed personnel of 4.3%.
Of the 39 industrial activities represented by the survey, a total of 33 registered positive variations in their real production, adding 13.9 percentage points to the total annual variation, and 6 subsectors with negative variations subtracted 0.4 percentage points from the variation as a whole. total.
The director of the Dane, Juan Daniel Oviedo, highlighted that “If we compare the actual production of April 2022 with that generated in April 2019, we are seeing a ‘three-year’ growth of 19.5%”. Oviedo stressed that, if this figure is viewed as an average annual growth, it would show a figure of 6.12%.
On the trade side, Dane announced that in April 2022, real retail sales increased 23.3% and employed personnel grew 2.8% compared to the same month in 2021. And excluding the trade in fuels, the variation in real sales in the sector was 22.8%.
(Industrial production and trade sales closed higher in 2021).
Likewise, if the results of April 2022 are compared with those of April 2019, there is evidence of a 23.4% increase in retail sales and a 1.3% drop in relation to employed personnel.
The greatest positive contributions to the annual variation occurred in the lines of fuels for motor vehicles; other motor vehicles and motorcycles; and Garments and textiles, contributing altogether 11.2 percentage points to the total variation of retail trade.
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