Ras Laffan Industrial City, administrated by Qatar Petroleum, some 80 kilometers north of the capital Doha on February 6, 2017 (AFP / Karim Jaafar)
Qatar's Producer Price Index (PPI) grew 1.8 percent in February on a monthly basis and 34 percent on a yearly basis, data released by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS) showed.
Producer price index covers goods relating to mining, manufacturing, and electricity & water. They each have a weight in the index of 72.7 percent, 26.8 percent, and 0.5 percent, respectively.
In mining goods, PPI of this year's February showed an increase of 1.4 percent when compared to the previous month of the same year.
This is mainly due to the increase of prices of Crude petroleum and natural gas. PPI on a yearly basis showed a significant increase of 39.3 percent.
