Economic Indicators: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
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Economic Indicators: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization

Intuition Publishing
Updated Sep 24, 2020

Industrial Production is an important figure, which is released monthly by most world economies, and measures the output of the industrial sector. Capacity Utilization indicates whether there is slack in the economy, and what proportion of the production capabilities of a country are actually being used. Both figures can be strong predictors of future changes in economic activity.