Press Release 13/05/2016
The industrial sector increased sales in half of Basque regions in 2014
Employment showed an upward trend in three regions, Valles Alaveses, Rioja Alavesa and Goierri
The trend in net sales in the extraction and manufacturing industry was positive for ten of the twenty regions in the Basque Country, which accounted for 72% of total sales and 61% of employment in 2014, according to Eustat data. Urola Costa was the region with the largest increase in sales with respect to 2013, with 6.8%, followed by Rioja Alavesa, with 5.7%. In a negative sense, the regions of Montaña Alavesa and Encartaciones registered the most negative evolution, with -19,5% and -13,7% respectively.
Distribution of net sales in the extraction and manufacturing industry by regions. 2014. Thousands of euros
Source: Eustat. Industrial statistics of the Basque Country
By province, Álava showed a positive progression on the whole with regards to the variation in sales, with a growth rate of 0.9% in 2014. In fact, four of its six regions, which account for 93% of the territory's sales and employment, obtained positive year-on-year rates, particularly the growth registered in Rioja Alavesa (5.7%), Cantábrica Alavesa (4.2%) and Valles Alaveses (4%). A marked decrease in net sales was recorded in the other two regions, Montaña Alavesa and Estribaciones del Gorbea, which are of a less industrial nature, with -19.5% and -11.5% respectively. Llanada Alavesa, with 64% of the territory's sales, registered an evolution of 0.8%.
Evolution was different in Bizkaia depending on each region. To some extent, growth in Duranguesado, 1.6%, and Markina-Ondarroa, 3.5%, compensated for the decrease in the remaining regions, such as Encartaciones, -13.7%, Plentzia-Mungia, -6.6%, and Gernika-Bermeo, -6.4%, resulting in an average decrease in Bizkaia of -0.3%. Sales in the region of Gran Bilbao, which accounts for almost 70% of net sales in Bizkaia, remained almost unchanged with respect to 2013 (0.0%).
Gipuzkoa saw the least favourable trend with a decrease of 0.7%. Bajo Deba and Goierri were the only two regions in this territory with positive year-on-year variations, registering 6.8% and 3.7% respectively. Sales decreased in Alto Deba (-6.3%) and in Tolosa (-3.6%). Decreases were also recorded in the territory's remaining regions, although to a lesser extent, lower than 2% in all cases. In Donostia-San Sebastián, which accounts for 25% of the territory's sales, the reduction was less than 1%.
The trend in terms of employed population was less favourable, as positive values in the annual balance were only obtained in three regions, and on average the Autonomous Region recorded a decline of 1.9%.
In Álava, manufacturing and extraction employment grew by 3.2% in Alaveses and, to a lesser extent, by 0.4% in Rioja Alavesa. Furthermore, it is worth noting that employment dropped by -4.2% in Cantábrica Alavesa. In Llanada Alavesa, the region which accounts for 62% of the staff employed in these sectors, employed population fell by 2.9%.
Employment dropped in all of the regions of Bizkaia between 2013 and 2014. The most negative employment movements were recorded in the regions of Plentzia-Mungia (-6.2%) and Encartaciones, with a decrease of -5.9%. In Gran Bilbao, where 55% of the territory's employment is located, the decline reached 1.1%.
There was a similar situation in Gipuzkoa. Improved figures with respect to 2013 were only registered in Goierri, with a 2.6% increase in employment. In the remaining regions, there was a decrease of between 0.7% in Tolosa and 5.6% in Alto Deba. Almost 1% of manufacturing and extraction employment was lost in the region of Donostia-San Sebastián, which accounts for 25% of the territory's overall employment in this sector.
Methodological note:
The sectorisation used is the National Classification of Economic Activities (CNAE-2009), with the B (extractive industries) and C (manufacturing industries) being the only sections included in this disaggregation by regions.
For further information:
Eustat - Euskal Estatistika Erakundea / Instituto Vasco de Estadística
C/ Donostia-San Sebastián, 1 01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz
Press Service: servicioprensa@eustat.es Tel: 945 01 75 62
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