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Release Date: January 15, 2021
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: Summary
Seasonally adjusted
Industrial production 2012=100 Percent change
2020 2020 Dec. '19 to
Dec. '20
July[r] Aug.[r] Sept.[r] Oct.[r] Nov.[r] Dec.[p] July[r] Aug.[r] Sept.[r] Oct.[r] Nov.[r] Dec.[p]
       
Total index 101.9 102.7 102.6 103.6 104.1 105.7 4.2 .7 -.1 1.0 .5 1.6 -3.6
Previous estimates 101.9 102.7 102.6 103.6 104.0   4.2 .8 -.1 .9 .4    
       
Major market groups
Final Products 98.2 99.3 98.7 99.4 99.9 101.3 5.0 1.1 -.7 .8 .4 1.4 -2.0
Consumer goods 104.1 104.8 103.9 104.4 104.3 106.0 4.7 .7 -.8 .5 -.2 1.6 .4
Business equipment 89.0 91.2 90.7 91.7 93.6 94.1 7.0 2.4 -.5 1.0 2.1 .6 -7.1
Nonindustrial supplies 99.2 100.2 100.8 103.0 102.8 104.6 2.6 1.1 .5 2.2 -.2 1.8 -3.7
Construction 107.9 109.4 110.2 112.8 113.5 115.7 1.4 1.5 .7 2.4 .6 1.9 -1.6
Materials 105.5 105.9 106.2 107.0 107.8 109.6 4.0 .3 .3 .8 .7 1.7 -4.9
       
Major industry groups
Manufacturing (see note below) 97.7 99.1 99.2 100.5 101.3 102.2 4.2 1.4 .1 1.3 .8 .9 -2.8
Previous estimates 97.7 99.1 99.2 100.3 101.1   4.2 1.5 .1 1.1 .8    
Mining 114.5 113.3 114.3 112.4 115.5 117.4 3.4 -1.0 .9 -1.7 2.8 1.6 -12.3
Utilities 106.7 104.9 102.6 104.7 100.0 106.3 5.1 -1.7 -2.2 2.1 -4.5 6.2 2.7

Capacity utilization Percent of capacity Capacity
growth
Average
1972-
2019
1988-
89
high
1990-
91
low
1994-
95
high
 
2009
low
 
2019
Dec.
   
2020 Dec. '19 to
Dec. '20
July[r] Aug.[r] Sept.[r] Oct.[r] Nov.[r] Dec.[p]
       
Total industry 79.8 85.1 78.8 85.0 66.7 77.2 71.8 72.3 72.3 73.0 73.4 74.5 -.2
Previous estimates             71.8 72.3 72.3 73.0 73.3    
       
Manufacturing (see note below) 78.2 85.5 77.3 84.6 63.7 75.3 70.1 71.1 71.2 72.1 72.7 73.4 -.3
Previous estimates             70.0 71.1 71.2 72.0 72.6    
Mining 87.2 86.3 84.3 88.6 78.3 89.2 77.5 77.0 77.8 76.7 79.0 80.5 -2.8
Utilities 85.2 93.2 84.7 93.2 78.2 74.8 75.8 74.3 72.4 73.8 70.3 74.5 3.2
       
Stage-of-process groups
Crude 86.2 87.8 84.7 90.0 76.4 87.9 77.6 77.6 78.0 77.9 79.7 80.9 -2.2
Primary and semifinished 80.3 86.4 78.1 87.8 63.9 74.9 69.8 70.2 70.5 71.7 71.1 72.8 .1
Finished 76.7 83.3 77.3 80.6 66.5 74.6 71.1 72.0 71.5 72.0 72.9 73.3 .2
[r] Revised. [p] Preliminary.
Note. The statistics in this release cover output, capacity, and capacity utilization in the U.S. industrial sector, which is defined by the Federal Reserve to comprise manufacturing, mining, and electric and gas utilities. Mining is defined as all industries in sector 21 of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS); electric and gas utilities are those in NAICS sectors 2211 and 2212. Manufacturing comprises NAICS manufacturing industries (sector 31-33) plus the logging industry and the newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishing industries. Logging and publishing are classified elsewhere in NAICS (under agriculture and information respectively), but historically they were considered to be manufacturing and were included in the industrial sector under the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system. In December 2002 the Federal Reserve reclassified all its industrial output data from the SIC system to NAICS.
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Last Update: January 15, 2021