Industrial producer prices decrease by 6.8% in January 2024 compared to a year earlier and go up by 0.3% compared to previous month
Industrial producer prices were 6.8% lower on average in January 2024 compared to one year earlier. Domestic output prices were cut by 7.6% and non-domestic output prices by 6.3%. Compared to the previous month, domestic output prices lessened by 1.1% and non-domestic output prices were up by 1.0%, so industrial producer prices as a whole rose by 0.3%.
In January 2024 compared to January 2023:
Domestic output prices were 7.6% lower on average, within which there was a decrease of 3.8% in manufacturing, representing a weight of 60.0%, and of 16.6% in the energy industry (electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply), with a weight of 38.6%. Food industry output prices lessened by 6.2%.
Prices in Hungary were 11.4% lower in energy and intermediate producer branches together, and increased by 4.5% in capital goods producer and lessened by 0.9% in consumer goods producer branches out of the end-use groups of the producer branches of industry.
Industrial non-domestic output prices were reduced by 6.3%, within which the prices were 2.7% lower in manufacturing, representing a weight of 82.9%, and 36.6% lower in the energy industry, with a weight of 16.7%.
Industrial price indices
(same period of previous year = 100.0)
(%)
Year, month | Domestic output | Non-domestic output | Producer price index, total |
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2023 January | 160.8 | 120.2 | 133.5 |
February | 156.4 | 115.8 | 129.0 |
March | 148.2 | 108.8 | 121.7 |
April | 141.9 | 103.3 | 115.9 |
May | 136.5 | 98.9 | 111.2 |
June | 129.8 | 95.0 | 106.4 |
July | 119.5 | 92.4 | 101.3 |
August | 108.6 | 92.4 | 97.7 |
September | 107.8 | 92.5 | 97.5 |
October | 100.4 | 90.1 | 93.4 |
November | 98.1 | 91.1 | 93.4 |
December | 96.4 | 91.1 | 92.8 |
2024 January | 92.4 | 93.7 | 93.2 |