Monthly global chemical production change due to COVID-19 by region 2020

Because of the effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus, global chemical production declined by 3.3 percent in March 2020 and a further 1.3 percent in April 2020. By August 2020, production increased by 2.7 percent compared to the previous month. Although chemicals production increased in the Former Soviet Union in January through March 2020, until it decreased by a modest 0.1 percent in April and May 2020, production decreased in most world regions during that timeframe. Among all of the world's regions, Asia Pacific's March decrease was the largest, at 5.4 percent. In April 2020, India had the largest monthly production decrease of any country the world, at 15.9 percent that month. Several European countries also had among the largest production decreases that month.

鉴于COVID-19冠状病毒的影响，全球化学工业在2020年3月下降了3.3%，而在4月则进一步下降了1.3%。至2020年8月，相较于上个月，产量实现了2.7%的增长。尽管在2020年1月至3月期间，前苏联地区的化学工业产量有所上升，但在2020年4月和5月，其产量仅微幅下降了0.1%，然而在此期间，全球多数地区的化学工业产量均有所下滑。在全球各区域中，亚太地区在3月份的降幅最大，达到了5.4%。2020年4月，印度成为世界上任何国家当月产量降幅最大的国家，达到了当月的15.9%，而多个欧洲国家在那个月份的生产降幅也位列前茅。