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Indices of Industrial Production

Preliminary Report for October 2020 (released at 8:50, November 30, 2020)

  • Industrial Production is picking up.
  • Production, Shipments increased, Inventories, Inventory Ratio decreased.
  • According to the Survey of Production Forecast in Manufacturing, Production is expected to increase in November, decrease in December.
2015 average=100
Seasonally Adjusted Index Original Index
index Percent change from the previous month(%) index Percent change from the previous year (%)
Production 95.0 3.8 97.2 -3.2
Shipments 94.7 4.6 95.8 -3.2
Inventories 95.9 -1.6 96.3 -7.9
Inventory Ratio 114.3 -3.0 112.2 -0.5

Industrial Production

Industries that mainly contributed to the increased
1.General-purpose and business oriented machinery, 2.Motor vehicles, 3.Electrical machinery, and Information and communication electronics equipment, in that order.
Industries that mainly contributed to the decreased
1.Electronic parts and devices, 2.Transport equipment (excl. motor vehicles), 3.Chemicals (excl. Inorganic, organic chemicals, and medicine).

Shipments

Industries that mainly contributed to the increased
1.Motor vehicles, 2.General-purpose and business oriented machinery, 3.Electrical machinery, and Information and communication electronics equipment, in that order.
Industries that mainly contributed to the decreased
1.Electronic parts and devices.

Inventories

Industries that mainly contributed to the decreased
1.Inorganic and organic chemicals, 2.Iron, steel and Non-ferrous metals, 3.Chemicals (excl. Inorganic, organic chemicals, and medicine), in that order.
Industries that mainly contributed to the increased
1.Plastic products, 2.Transport equipment (excl. motor vehicles).

Indices of Industrial Production Forecast*1

Seasonally Adjusted Index
Percent change from the previous month(%)
November 2020 December 2020
Survey in November 2020 2.7 -2.4
Survey in October 2020 1.2
Industries that mainly contributed to the increased in November
1.Production machinery, 2.Electronic parts and devices, 3.Chemicals, in that order.
Industries that mainly contributed to the decreased in December
1.General-purpose and business oriented machinery, 2.Transport equipment, 3.Production machinery, in that order.

* Indices of Industrial Production Forecast is conducted monthly to search the planned production amounts for the current and proceeding months.
The survey is one of the useful economic indicators which reflect changing business conditions and provide a view of where the economy is heading in the near future.

data download

Report on IIP( Production, shipments and Inventories )PDF file
Historical data of each index, Indices classified by Industry, Indices classified by use of Goods.
Historical data etc.(data download)
Excel and csv files of each index (Year, Fiscal Year, Quarter, Month), previous data, weight of Indices of Industrial Production, etc..
Results in the past
Outline of the result, Report on IIP in the past.
Release date of Indices of Industrial Production
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(Published at December 27, 2019)
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Last updated:2020-11-30

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