IPI increases 4.3% in January 2022

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Industrial Production Index (IPI) increased 4.3 per cent in January 2022 compared with the same month of the previous year, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DoSM) said.

Chief statistician Datuk Sri Mohd Uzir Mahidin said the expansion of IPI was contributed by the increment of 6.8 per cent in the manufacturing index and 7.7 per cent in the electricity index, but the mining index recorded a decline of 5.1 per cent.