The fiscal year runs from July to June.
Manufacturing activity grew by 16.3% in the third quarter, recovering from a 3.9% decline in the same quarter of the previous fiscal year.
Oil and natural gas extraction continued to decline, contracting by 10.38%.
The Planning Ministry also provided fourth-quarter revenue figures for the Suez Canal, showing a decline to $900 million from $1.1 billion a year earlier. For the third quarter, activity fell by 23.1% compared with a drop of 51.6% the prior year, it said, without giving exact figures.
--Reuters--