This is a 3.7 percentage point decrease in PPI compared to February 2020’s rate of 10.5%.
This rate also indicated that between March 2019 and March 2020 (year-on-year), the PPI increased by 6.8%.
The PPI in the mining and quarrying sub-sector decreased by 2.4 percentage points over the February 2020 rate of 26.1% to record 23.7% in March 2020.
The producer inflation for Manufacturing which constitutes more than two-thirds of the total industry also decreased by 4.7 percentage points to record 2.1%.
The utility sub-sector saw an inflation rate of 12.2% for March 2020. This is a decrease of 0.1 percentage point over the February 2020 rate of 12.3%.
Ten out of the sixteen major groups in the manufacturing sub-sector recorded inflation rates higher than the sector average of 2.1%.
The manufacture of machinery and equipment recorded the highest inflation rate of 24.7%. Meanwhile, the manufacture of coke, refined petroleum products, and nuclear fuel recorded reduced inflation of -9.6%.