India’s industrial production growth slows to 8-month low of 2.7% in April

29 May 2025 Evaluate

India’s industrial production growth, measured in terms of the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), slowed to an 8-month low of 2.7 per cent in April 2025 due to poor performance of manufacturing, mining and power sectors. The factory output growth was lower than 5.2 per cent growth in April 2024. The government has revised upwards industrial growth figure for March 2025 to 3.9 per cent from the provisional estimate of 3.0 per cent released in the previous month. The Quick Estimates of IIP for April 2025 stood at 152.0 against 148.0 in April 2024.

The manufacturing sector’s output growth slightly decelerated to 3.4 per cent in April 2025 from 4.2 per cent in the year-ago month. Mining production contracted by 0.2 per cent as against a growth of 6.8 per cent a year ago. Electricity sector growth also slowed to 1.1 per cent in April 2025 against 10.2 per cent in the year-ago period. The Indices of Industrial Production for the Mining, Manufacturing and Electricity sectors for the month of April 2025 stood at 130.6, 149.5 and 214.4 respectively. 

Within the manufacturing sector, 16 out of 23 industry groups at NIC 2 digit-level have recorded a positive growth in April 2025 over April 2024. The top three positive contributors for the month of April 2025 are - ‘Manufacture of basic metals’ (4.9%), ‘Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers’ (15.4%) and ‘Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.’ (17.0%).

The output of primary goods contracted by 0.4 per cent in April 2025 against 7 per cent growth a year earlier. The capital goods segment growth accelerated to 20.3 per cent in April 2025 from 2.8 per cent in the year-ago period. The expansion in the intermediate goods segment was 4.1 per cent in the month under review, up from 3.8 per cent a year ago. Infrastructure/construction goods reported a growth of 4 per cent in April 2025, down from an 8.5 per cent expansion in the year-ago period. Consumer durables grew 6.4 per cent during the reporting month against a growth of 10.5 per cent in April 2024. 

The data also showed that in April 2025, consumer non-durables output contracted 1.7 per cent compared to a contraction of 2.5 per cent a year ago. As per the use base classification, the indices stood at 151.6 for Primary Goods, 114.3 for Capital Goods, 164.2 for Intermediate Goods and 191.6 for Infrastructure/ Construction Goods for the month of April 2025. Further, the indices for Consumer durables and Consumer non-durables stood at 127.2 and 148.4 respectively.

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