Mining Overtook Industry

In the last Iranian year (from March 2015 to March 2016) mining sector recorded a positive growth and overtook industry sector.

Industry, Mine and Trade Ministry released an official report and announced 1.7 percent growth for mine sector during the last Iranian year.
In this report referred to the statistics of Statistical Center of Iran, while industry sector experienced 0.3 percent negative growth, mining sector overtook industry. In the other hand, GDP (Product) reached 0.1 percent last year.
According to this report “mine and industry sector” had no growth and was the same as the year before.
Also, growth of agriculture and services groups were 5.4 and 0.2 percent respectively.
In 1393(2014-2015),based on the official statistics of Central Bank of Iran, mine sector with 9.8 percent growth overtook the industry sector while industry sector growth reached 6.7 percent.
In this report the base year is 1997.

source: imidro