QNA
Doha
Qatar’s Producer Price Index (PPI) for January 2023 is estimated at 129.59 points, showing a decrease of 4.71 percent, when compared to that of December 2022, and a decline of 1.75 percent, as against the PPI of January 2022.
These are according to the Planning and Statistics Authority’s (PSA) new monthly PPI of the industrial sector for January 2023, which is calculated based on 2018 where the details of relative importance and prices for the base year of 2018 are used.
For Mining and Quarrying, the PPI of January 2023 for this sector showed a decrease by 5.61 percent when compared with PPI of December 2022, primarily due to the price decrease on “Crude petroleum and natural gas” by 5.61 percent, while no change in “Other mining and quarrying”. PPI of Mining of January 2023, when compared with its counterpart in previous year (January 2022), there was an increase of 0.82 percent.
On Manufacturing, an increase of 0.08 percent has been recorded in January 2023, when compared with the previous months Manufacturing index (December 2022). The prices increase is seen in: “Refined petroleum products” by 7.49 percent, followed by “Rubber and plastics products” by 5.50 percent, “Cement & other nonmetallic mineral products” by 0.93 percent, “Basic metals” by 0.89 percent, and “Beverages” by 0.82 percent, The decreasing prices are noticed in “Chemicals and chemical products” by 2.44 percent, and “Food products” by 0.49 percent. No change noticed in “Printing and reproduction of recorded media” in January 2023.
Comparing with the index of counterpart in the previous year (January 2022), “Manufacturing” PPI of January 2023 showed a decrease of 13.85 percent. The major groups which explain this price decrease are “chemicals and chemical products” by 23.10 percent, and “Basic metals” by 9.32 percent. However, the increasing prices are noticed in: “Printing and reproduction of recorded media” by 13.20 percent, followed by “Refined Petroleum products” by 12.39 percent, “Rubber and Plastics products” by 6.45 percent, “Food products” by 6.22 percent, “Beverages” by 0.95 percent, and “Cement & other non-metallic mineral products” by 0.09 percent.
Concerning electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, the PPI of this group showed an increase of 4.12 percent compared to December 2022. When compared the PPI of January 2023, to the PPI of January 2022 Y-o-Y, showed a decrease of 8.29 percent.
For water supply, the PPI of this group showed a decrease of 4.19 percent compared to December 2022. When compared the PPI of January 2023, to the PPI of January 2022 Y-o-Y, showed a decrease of 2.58 percent.
