Eleven of the 15 surveyed areas had an increase in industrial production from November to December, in the seasonally adjusted series. The highest expansions were in Espírito Santo (5.4%) and Ceará (4.7%), while the sharpest decreases were in Bahia (-4.0%) and Amazonas (-3.7%).

In the cumulative index in 2020, there were decreases in 12 of the 15 locations, with a highlight to Espírito Santo (-13.9%), Ceará (-6.1%) and São Paulo (-5.7%). The positive indexes were registered in Pernambuco (3.7%), Rio de Janeiro (0.2%) and Goiás (0.1%). .

Short-Term Indicators of industry
Regional Results - December 2020

The 0.9% growth in industrial activity from November to December 2020, in the seasonally adjusted series, showed a predominance of positive results, reaching 11 of the 15 surveyed locations. That growth reflects, to a large extent, the return to production in the plants, after measures against the Covid-19 pandemic had been relaxed.

This month, Espírito Santo (5.4%) and Ceará (4.7%) registered the sharpest expansions, with the former eliminating two consecutive months of decline in production, a period in which it accumulated a loss of 2.3%; and the latter, accumulating an expansion of 120.7% in eight months of positive rates in a row.

Pará (3.6%), São Paulo (3.4%), Minas Gerais (3.1%), Mato Grosso (3.0%), Paraná (2.8%), Santa Catarina (2.4% ) and Rio Grande do Sul (1.2%) also showed advances above the national average (0.9%), and Rio de Janeiro (0.2%) and the Northeast Region (0.2%) completed the set of locations with positive monthly indexes.

On the other hand, Bahia (-4.0%) and Amazonas (-3.7%) had the highest decreases in December 2020, with the former decreasing again after accumulating an increase of 35.5% in the May-November period 2020; and the latter eliminating the 3.6% expansion observed in November. Pernambuco (-2.9%) and Goiás (-0.8%) registered the other negative results in this month.

The industry's quarterly moving average index showed an expansion of 1.0% in the quarter ended in December 2020 compared to November after also advancing in November (1.6%), October (2.4%), September (4.8 %), August (7.1%) and July (9.0%), when the predominantly downward trend started in November 2019 was interrupted. Nine of the 15 surveyed locations showed positive rates in that month, with a highlight to the greatest advances recorded by Santa Catarina (2.7%), Paraná (2.5%), Ceará (2.4%), Rio Grande do Sul (1.9%), Northeast Region (1.8%), São Paulo (1, 7%), Minas Gerais (1.4%) and Espírito Santo (1.0%). On the other hand, Goiás (-1.8%), Pará (-1.5%) and Mato Grosso (-1.0%) registered the highest decreases in December 2020.

In the comparison with December 2019, in the non-adjusted series, the industry grew 8.2%, with 13 of the 15 surveyed places showing positive results in December. Rio Grande do Sul (19.7%), Paraná (18.9%), Santa Catarina (18.7%), Minas Gerais (18.4%), Ceará (17.7%), São Paulo (17, 5%), Amazonas (9.6%) and Pernambuco (8.3%) had advances above the national average (8.2%), and the Northeast Region (5.7%), Espírito Santo (4.2%), Pará (2.3%), Mato Grosso (1.2%) and Bahia (0.4%) completed the set of areas with production growth in the monthly index of December 2020. Rio de Janeiro ( -3.9%) and Goiás (-3.5%) recorded decreases this month.

In the cumulative index of 2020, compared to the same period of 2019, production fall reached 12 of the 15 surveyed places, with a highlight to Espírito Santo (-13.9%), Ceará (-6.1%) and São Paulo (-5 , 7%). Amazonas (-5.5%), Rio Grande do Sul (-5.4%), Bahia (-5.3%) and Mato Grosso (-5.2%) also registered sharper negative rates than the national average (-4.5%), and Santa Catarina (-4.4%), Minas Gerais (-3.2%), Northeast Region (-3.0%), Paraná (-2.6%) and Pará ( -0.1%) completed the set of locations with a production drop in the cumulative index over the year. On the other hand, Pernambuco (3.7%), Rio de Janeiro (0.2%) and Goiás (0.1%) had growth in production in this comparison.