United Kingdom Manufacturing Production 1969-2018 | Data | Chart

Manufacturing production in the United Kingdom rose 1.1 percent year-on-year in May of 2018, following a downwardly revised 0.9 percent increase in April but below market expectations of a 1.9 percent gain. On a monthly basis, factory output rose 0.4 percent, rebounding from a downwardly revised 1.3 percent drop in the previous month and forecasts of a 0.9 percent gain. Still, it is the first increase in factory production since December. Pharmaceutical products and transport equipment provided the largest contributions to monthly growth, increasing by 2.4 percent and 1.1 percent respectively. Manufacturing Production in the United Kingdom averaged 0.61 percent from 1969 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 19.60 percent in February of 1973 and a record low of -16.90 percent in December of 1980.

1Y 5Y 10Y MAX

width

height

Trading Economics members can view, download and compare data from nearly 200 countries, including more than 20 million economic indicators, exchange rates, government bond yields, stock indexes and commodity prices.

Learn More Register Login Questions? Click here to contact us

The Trading Economics Application Programming Interface (API) provides direct access to our data. It allows API clients to download millions of rows of historical data, to query our real-time economic calendar, subscribe to updates and receive quotes for currencies, commodities, stocks and bonds.

API Features Documentation Interested? Click here to contact us

Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-05-10	08:30 AM	Manufacturing Production YoY	2.9%	2.5%	2.9%	2.2%
2018-06-11	08:30 AM	Manufacturing Production YoY	1.4%	2.9%	3.1%	3.2%
2018-07-10	08:30 AM	Manufacturing Production YoY	1.1%	0.9%	1.9%	2.8%
2018-08-10	08:30 AM	Manufacturing Production YoY		1.1%		2.2%
2018-09-11	08:30 AM	Manufacturing Production YoY				2.4%
2018-10-10	08:30 AM	Manufacturing Production YoY				3%

United Kingdom Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	-4.00	13.00	55.00	-75.00	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	54.40	54.30	61.50	34.40		[+]
Services PMI	55.10	54.00	62.50	40.10	Index Points	[+]
Industrial Production	0.80	1.60	22.60	-11.90	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	-0.40	-1.00	9.80	-7.90	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	1.10	0.90	19.60	-16.90	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	82.90	81.20	85.20	38.00	percent	[+]
New Orders	11628.00	12701.00	25109.00	9381.00	GBP Million	[+]
Factory Orders	13.00	-3.00	21.00	-79.00	Net Balance	[+]
Changes in Inventories	-96.00	-1820.00	11295.00	-11441.00	GBP Million	[+]
Bankruptcies	4462.00	4382.00	6509.00	924.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	107899.00	109353.00	109353.00	1024.00	GBP Million	[+]
Zew Economic Sentiment Index	-53.60	-43.00	61.00	-77.20		[+]
Car Production	137225.00	127952.00	185157.00	43773.00	Units	[+]
Car Registrations	234945.00	192649.00	562337.00	33051.00		[+]
Small Business Sentiment	-5.00	23.00	40.00	-69.00		[+]
Internet Speed	16920.86	16337.23	16920.86	3085.89	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	27493519.00	26782989.00	27493519.00	13305856.00	IP	[+]
Leading Economic Index	0.20	0.00	1.90	-2.10	percent	[+]
Private Investment	-0.40	0.30	64.50	-33.80	percent	[+]
Mining Production	-0.30	5.50	852.60	-90.50	percent	[+]
Steel Production	582.00	769.00	2848.00	131.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Competitiveness Index	5.51	5.49	5.56	5.18	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	8.00	7.00	13.00	2.00		[+]
Composite Pmi	55.20	54.50	61.80	47.40		[+]
Ease of Doing Business	7.00	7.00	11.00	5.00		[+]
Electricity Production	30192.00	28126.00	38520.00	16152.00	Gigawatt-hour	[+]
Corruption Index	82.00	81.00	87.00	74.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	8.00	10.00	20.00	8.00		[+]

United Kingdom Manufacturing Production

Manufacturing production measures the output of businesses operating in the manufacturing sector. It is the most important sector in the UK and accounts for 70 percent of total production. The biggest segments within Manufacturing are: Food, drink and tobacco (11 percent of total production); transport equipment (9 percent); basic metals (8 percent); other manufacturing and repair (6 percent); pharmaceutical products and preparations (6 percent); and rubber and plastic products and non-metallic mineral products (6 percent). This page provides the latest reported value for - United Kingdom Manufacturing Production - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. United Kingdom Manufacturing Production - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on July of 2018.

	Actual	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Dates	Unit	Frequency
	1.10	0.90	19.60	-16.90	1969 - 2018	percent	Monthly	Constant Prices 2016=100, SA

Export Data API

manufacturing production by Country

Country	Last		Previous	Highest	Lowest
Australia	2.40	Dec/17	2.8	8.6	-11.8	%	Quarterly
Brazil	-7.80	May/18	10.3	18.9	-17	%	Monthly
Canada	3.50	Apr/18	2.67	12.88	-17.31	%	Monthly
China	6.60	May/18	7.4	11.4	6.3	%	Monthly
Euro Area	2.80	May/18	2	10.1	-21.7	%	Monthly
France	-0.70	May/18	2.8	69	-27.1	%	Monthly
Germany	3.60	May/18	2	15.5	-24.1	%	Monthly
India	2.80	May/18	5.3	24.3	-9.1	%	Monthly
Italy	2.20	May/18	2.2	19.4	-27	%	Monthly
Japan	4.32	May/18	2.65	29.33	-37.18	%	Monthly
Mexico	2.80	May/18	5.3	18.26	-17.74	%	Monthly
Netherlands	3.20	May/18	4.8	10.3	-13.8	%	Monthly
Russia	5.40	May/18	5.3	27.1	-28.1	%	Monthly
South Korea	0.80	May/18	0.6	41.6	-26.7	%	Monthly
Spain	2.40	May/18	2.5	13.6	-22.7	%	Monthly
Switzerland	8.60	Mar/18	10.6	14.2	-9.9	%	Quarterly
Turkey	6.30	Apr/18	8	31	-24.5	%	Monthly
United Kingdom	1.10	May/18	0.9	19.6	-16.9	%	Monthly
United States	1.70	May/18	1.9	67.9	-39.4	%	Monthly