Industrial production in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) in 2017 is by 3.8 percent higher than in 2016, by 9.8 percent in the field of mining and quarrying, by 4.6 percent in the processing industry, while in manufacturing and supply of electricity and gas it decreased by 1.9 percent.
Viewed by industries that have a significant impact on the movement of the industrial production index, the production increased by 10.4 percent in coal and lignite extraction, by 6.5 percent in the manufacture of chemicals and chemical products, by 4.1 percent in the manufacture of basic metals and finished goods of metal products, except machinery and equipment by 10 percent.
According to the Federal Statistical Office data, the fall in industrial production was recorded in the production of food products by 1.4 percent, and in the production and supply of electricity and gas by 1.9 percent.
In the structure of gross value added (GVA) as one of the indicators for computing the Industrial production volume index, significant GVA is present in the production and supply of electricity and gas by 20.56 percent, manufacture of finished metal products, except machinery and equipment by 9.58 percent, coal and lignite extraction by 9,28 percent, food production 8.07 percent, base metal production 5.55 percent, and chemicals and chemical products 4.64 percent.
The value of the production and sales of industrial products produced in the territory of the FBiH in 2016, viewed by cantons, was 26.4 percent in the Tuzla Canton, 23.3 percent in the Zenica Doboj Canton, 13.8 percent in Canton Sarajevo, 11 percent in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, in the Central Bosnia Canton 10.6 percent, in the West Herzegovina Canton 6.6 percent, in the Una-Sana Canton 4.3 percent, in the Bosnian-Podrinje Canton 1.7 percent, in the Posavina Canton 1.3 percent, and in the Canton 10 1 percent.
(Source: klix.ba)
