In September alone, Moldova's industrial output decreased by a real 22.5% on the year, the country’s statistics bureau said in a statement.
Calculated in current prices, Moldova's industrial output totalled 16.32 billion lei ($1.5 billion/983 million euro) in the January-September period.
Moldova's industrial output (y/y pct change):
Jan-Sept'09 | Jan-Sept'08 | |
Total | -24.3 | +2.8 |
- processing | -26.3 | +2.2 |
- mining | -32.4 | +8.6 |
- services | -4.5 | +6.4 |
(1 euro=16.6018 Moldovan lei)