In April, Turkey left 25 countries of European Union and whole Euro region behind, where a decline of 0.8 percentage in EU and 0.3 % decrease in Euro region took place. Inactivity continued in European industry production of April, where it rose 0.3 % on a monthly basis but receded 0.8 % on a yearly basis, according to the data AA compiled from Eurostat and Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat).
Turkish industrial production grew 1.3 % in April compared to March and 3.4 % compared to last year's April. Biggest economy of Europe Germany's industrial production increased 1.2 %, whereas France with 0.1%, Italy with 4.6, Spain with 1.8 and Britain with 2.6 % decreased.
Amongst the EU countries, in which industrial production on yearly basis increased most, were Romania with 12.6 % and Lithuania with 5 %. On monthly basis, most industrial production increased in Norway with 5.4 %, Ireland with 3%, France with 2.3 and Romania with 1.9 %. Turkey was 5th with an increase of 1.3 %.
On yearly basis in EU countries, Finland became the country with most decrease in industrial production. Finland with a percentage of 10.2, Norway with 5.3 % and Italy with 4.6 % regressed in industrial production. Most declining countries on monthly basis were Norway with 5.1 %, Netherlands with 4.3 % and Portugal with 3.6 %.
April's industrial production index rates are as following:
| Monthly Basis | Yearly Basis | |
| Euro Zone | 0.4 | -0.6 |
| EU | 0.3 | -0.8 |
| Romania | 1.9 | 12.6 |
| Lithuania | -3.3 | 5 |
| Turkey | 1.3 | 3.4 |
| Bulgaria | 1.1 | -1.3 |
| Czech Republic | -0.7 | -3.4 |
| Denmark | 0.7 | 0.1 |
| Germany | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Esthonia | -3.3 | 2.7 |
| Ireland | 3 | 0.4 |
| Greece | -0.2 | -2 |
| Spain | -0.9 | -1.8 |
| France | 2.3 | -0.1 |
| Italy | -0.3 | -4.6 |
| Latvia | 0.5 | -1 |
| Malta | -2.2 | -0.8 |
| Netherlands | -4.3 | 0.2 |
| Poland | 0.8 | -0.9 |
| Portugal | -3.6 | 1.8 |
| Slovenia | 1.1 | -1.1 |
| Finland | -5.1 | -10.2 |
| Sweden | -1.1 | -1.6 |
| Britain | 0.1 | -2.6 |
| Norway | 5.4 | -5.3 |
| Croatia | -1.5 | -0.5 |
