Social and economic situation in eleven months of 2014

As of mid-November, the country harvested 1,383,100 hectares of winter rice, equaling 93.8% from the same period last year, of which it was 1,169,100 hectares for provinces of the North, accounting for 98.9% of the cultivated area and attaining approximately the figures in 2013’s same period; it was 214,000 hectares for provinces of the South, equaling 70.4%.

Socio-economic situation in February and two months of 2014

Two months’ trade surplus achieved an estimate of US$ 244 million, equaling 1.2% of total export turnovers, of which trade surplus of the FDI sector reached US$ 2.09 billion while the trade deficit still belonged to the domestic economic sector with US$ 1.85 billion.

Socio-economic situation in January of 2014

January’s s Industrial Production Index (IPI) was estimated to have a low increase of 3% compared to that in the same period last year, the reason for this, on the one hand, was the mining and quarrying’s deep decrease of 9.6% Generally, 2013’s consumption index of the manufacturing rose 10.1% from 2012.

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