The Office for National Statistics, which produces the figures, did not have access to the industrial output, which includes energy production and mining, when it made its initial second-quarter GDP estimate.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve said that industrial output in the U.S. rose 0.6 percent in July, helped in part by the auto industry.
Over the weekend Chinese industrial output was reported up 10% on an annualized basis in November, which was above expectations.
The fall in industrial output in July was revised down to 1.0%.
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The decline left industrial output 1.2% lower than a year ago.
In the first five months of the year, industrial construction output expanded at rates above 4 percent.
China's economic growth rate may be gathering pace again, as the government released strong industrial output and retail sales figures.
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The French national statistics institute, Insee, also said that in the three months to February, industrial output was just 0.1% lower than in the previous quarter, although the manufacturing sector showed a bigger decline of 0.3%.
Since the start of the fiscal year in April, India's industrial output has contracted in six of the 10 months till January, reflecting the weak state of the economy, which has been battered by a mix of domestic problems including high inflation and wide fiscal and current account deficits.
To explain the graph a bit more clearly, the X axis is months and years, while the Y axis is the volume of industrial activity as a percentage of the average monthly output of 2009 (which, it should be noted, was depressed as a result of the global financial crisis).
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The rate of decline in industrial output in Spain increased in February, according to official figures.
In economic news, industrial output in the euro zone rose by 0.9% in August from a month earlier, Eurostat said, suggesting the region's economy was recovering gradually.
It is quite possible that the economy is stronger than the official statistics suggest: in fact, we already know that construction and industrial output were stronger in June than the ONS expected when they came up with their first estimate for the change in GDP in the second quarter.
The world's output of industrial metals is also expanding, and prices have been dropping for over a year.
South Korea's economy has picked up speed in the first quarter boosted by strong industrial output and government spending.
Estonia has fared better, but its current level of industrial output is essentially the same as it was in 2007.
Still, better-than-expected industrial output data supported the broader market in Tokyo.
Short-term business debt levels continue to expand in the first quarter alongside higher aggregate industrial output data, Fed reports show, even as high-grade issuers continue to refinance short-term debt balances at a steady clip this year.
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European stocks mostly declined, with the Stoxx Europe 600 down 0.4%, after industrial-production data in the euro zone showed output fell in November from the previous year.
The main exception is in smaller East Asian countries, where industrial output is rebounding and GDP growth is likely to resume in the second quarter.
U.S. retail sales data, industrial output in China and the euro area, the ongoing Spanish banking crisis and possible further monetary policy easing in Japan will all be overshadowed by the Greek elections, said Nomura Securities analysts in a 16 page report on Friday.
Separately, December industrial output in Italy rose 0.4% on the month, but for all of 2012 output was at the lowest level since at least 1990.
This week has seen industrial production data coming out of the major EU countries, and all of that data showed significant industrial output contraction in those countries.
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Higher prices tend to draw more supply to the market in the form of scrap and increased mine output, she said, and at the same time encourages industrial users to look for cheaper substitutes.
In Italy, now in the final days of an election campaign, industrial output fell 6.7% last year.
Meanwhile, industrial output fell in May for the eighth successive month, dropping to a level 2.8% lower than a year earlier.
On the supply-side data, industrial-sector output also increased for two consecutive quarters.
India's industrial output has contracted in six of the first 11 months of the last financial year.
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