Industrial production in the United States ticked up 0.1% in August 2025, beating market expectations for a 0.1% decrease after a downwardly revised 0.4% fall in July. Manufacturing output, which makes up about 78% of total industrial production, rose 0.2% after decreasing 0.1% in July and compared with forecasts for a 0.2% drop. Mining output grew 0.9%, while the index for utilities decreased 2%, as a 2.3% decline in the output of electric utilities more than offset a 0.2% increase in the output of natural gas utilities. Capacity utilization maintained the same rate of 77.4%, a rate that is 2.2 percentage points below its long-run (1972–2024) average.