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Release Date: April 15, 2021
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: Summary
Seasonally adjusted
Industrial production 2012=100 Percent change
2020 2021 2020 2021 Mar. '20 to
Mar. '21
Oct.[r] Nov.[r] Dec.[r] Jan.[r] Feb.[r] Mar.[p] Oct.[r] Nov.[r] Dec.[r] Jan.[r] Feb.[r] Mar.[p]
       
Total index 103.9 104.8 105.9 106.9 104.1 105.6 1.1 .9 1.0 .9 -2.6 1.4 1.0
Previous estimates 103.8 104.8 105.8 107.1 104.7   1.0 .9 1.0 1.1 -2.2    
       
Major market groups
Final Products 99.6 100.2 101.4 102.1 100.7 101.3 .8 .6 1.2 .7 -1.4 .6 4.7
Consumer goods 104.5 104.8 106.6 106.6 105.7 105.1 .4 .3 1.7 .0 -.9 -.5 5.1
Business equipment 92.2 93.5 93.8 95.6 92.8 95.3 1.3 1.5 .3 1.9 -3.0 2.7 5.7
Nonindustrial supplies 103.7 104.1 105.4 105.8 103.3 105.1 2.3 .4 1.3 .4 -2.3 1.7 .5
Construction 113.9 114.8 116.1 117.2 113.1 118.1 2.5 .8 1.2 .9 -3.5 4.4 2.2
Materials 107.3 108.7 109.6 111.0 106.7 109.1 .9 1.3 .8 1.3 -3.8 2.2 -1.9
       
Major industry groups
Manufacturing (see note below) 100.9 101.9 102.6 103.9 100.0 102.8 1.5 .9 .7 1.3 -3.7 2.7 3.1
Previous estimates 100.9 101.8 102.6 103.8 100.7   1.4 1.0 .7 1.2 -3.1    
Mining 112.4 116.4 117.0 119.5 112.8 119.2 -1.7 3.6 .5 2.1 -5.6 5.7 -8.8
Utilities 104.2 101.6 105.5 102.1 111.5 98.8 1.5 -2.5 3.8 -3.1 9.2 -11.4 -.2

Capacity utilization Percent of capacity Capacity
growth
Average
1972-
2020
1988-
89
high
1990-
91
low
1994-
95
high
 
2009
low
 
2020
Mar.
   
2020 2021 Mar. '20 to
Mar. '21
Oct.[r] Nov.[r] Dec.[r] Jan.[r] Feb.[r] Mar.[p]
       
Total industry 79.6 85.1 78.8 85.0 66.7 73.6 73.2 73.9 74.7 75.3 73.4 74.4 -.1
Previous estimates             73.2 73.9 74.6 75.5 73.8    
       
Manufacturing (see note below) 78.1 85.5 77.3 84.6 63.7 71.4 72.4 73.1 73.7 74.6 71.9 73.8 -.3
Previous estimates             72.4 73.1 73.7 74.6 72.3    
Mining 87.0 86.3 84.3 88.6 78.3 87.7 76.7 79.7 80.2 82.1 77.7 82.2 -2.7
Utilities 84.9 93.2 84.7 93.2 78.2 71.1 73.4 71.3 73.9 71.4 77.8 68.8 3.1
       
Stage-of-process groups
Crude 86.1 87.8 84.7 90.0 76.4 86.3 78.3 81.0 81.7 83.0 76.2 80.4 -2.1
Primary and semifinished 80.1 86.4 78.1 87.8 63.9 71.3 72.0 71.7 72.7 72.9 72.6 71.9 .2
Finished 76.6 83.3 77.3 80.6 66.5 70.1 72.0 72.9 73.5 74.5 72.6 74.4 .1
[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: April 15, 2021