Industrial Production year-on-year change rate was 1.3%, in December, down by 1.9 percentage points from the previous month. Manufacturing Industry year-on-year change rate was 2.8% (4.8% in November). In the fourth quarter of 2017 the aggregate index increased 3.1% in year-on-year terms (in the previous quarter this change rate was 7.1%). The average change rate in 2017 was 4.0% (2.3% in the previous year).