Industrial production dropped by 5.4% year-on-year and by 2.0% compared to the previous month
The volume of industrial production lagged behind the one year earlier level by 5.4% in November 2025. The working day adjusted index is equal to the non-adjusted one. A setback in production occurred in the great majority of the manufacturing subsections. According to seasonally and working-day adjusted data, industrial output was 2.0% lower than in October 2025.
In November 2025:
The volume of industrial production decreased by 5.4% compared to the same period of the previous year. (Compared to the November data published in the first estimate, the data in the second estimate did not change.)
Industrial output– according to seasonally and working-day adjusted indices – was below the previous month’s level by 2.0%.
The volume of industrial export was 5.5% lower than a year earlier. The manufacture of transport equipment export, representing a 28% weight within export sales in manufacturing fell by 9.4%, the manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products export, accounting for a 18% weight, went up by 16,6%.
Domestic sales of industry decreased by 8.0%, those of manufacturing declined by 6.6% compared to the same month of the previous year.
Within industry, production fell by 5.7% in the decisive weight (94%) representing manufacturing, dropped by 11.8% in the small weight representing mining and quarrying, and lessened by 2.1% in the energy industry (electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning supply)
Changes in the production and sales of manufacturing
(%)
| Period | Production | Total | Domestic | Export | Share of export in sales at current prices | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sales | ||||||
| Volume index, corresponding period of previous year = 100.0 | ||||||
| 2023 | 95.8 | 97.4 | 91.8 | 99.7 | 72.7 | |
| 2024 | 95.0 | 94.4 | 94.8 | 94.3 | 72.9 | |
| 2025 | January | 97.0 | 98.8 | 97.3 | 99.3 | 74.7 |
| February | 91.2 | 92.1 | 92.2 | 92.0 | 74.7 | |
| March | 100.6 | 101.1 | 97.5 | 102.4 | 74.3 | |
| April | 94.7 | 96.7 | 98.1 | 96.2 | 73.1 | |
| May | 97.4 | 98.2 | 92.2 | 100.6 | 73.7 | |
| June | 94.6 | 96.3 | 99.1 | 95.4 | 73.0 | |
| July | 99.4 | 98.7 | 98.2 | 98.8 | 72.9 | |
| August | 92.5 | 92.7 | 95.6 | 91.6 | 71.3 | |
| September | 101.5 | 100.9 | 100.6 | 101.1 | 73.9 | |
| October | 97.1 | 97.9 | 94.8 | 99.0 | 74.4 | |
| November | 94.3 | 95.4 | 93.4 | 96.2 | 72.9 | |
| From the beginning of the year | 96.4 | 97.2 | 96.2 | 97.6 | 73.6 | |
Output volume of the largest weight representing manufacture of transport equipment, having a 25% share in manufacturing, decreased by 4.7% compared to the same month of the previous year. Motor vehicles manufacturing declined by 1.9%, the manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles dropped by 9.2%.
The manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products, accounting for 13% within manufacturing output exceeded the November 2024 level by 7.0%. Considering the two largest groups, the manufacture of computers and peripheral equipment went up by 62%, at the same time the manufacture of electronic components and boards fell by 33%.
The manufacture of electrical equipment, representing a 9.4% weight in manufacturing lagged behind the one year earlier level by 10.7%. Out of the two largest weight representing groups production volume in the manufacture of batteries and accumulators decreased by 7.2%, the manufacture of electric motors, generators, transformers and electricity distribution and control dropped by 16.0%.
The manufacture of food products, beverages and tobacco products, having a 14% share in manufacturing, was 1.7% higher than in the same month of the previous year, at the same time both domestic and export sales slightly declined. Processing and preserving meat and the production of meat products, representing the largest weight (24%) rose by 5.4%. Production grew between 4.5% and 18% in six other groups, too, most of all in the manufacture of prepared animal feeds, least of all in the processing and preserving of fruit and vegetables. Output decreased between 0.3% and 17.9% in the other four groups, to the greatest extent in the manufacture of vegetable and animal oils and fats.
Out of the two medium weight representing subsections the manufacture of rubber and plastics products and other non-metallic mineral products fell by 10.3%, the manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment declined by 2.6% compared to the same month of the previous year.
Contrary to the increase in the previous month, the manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c., having a 5.1% share in manufacturing, dropped 16.0%, a decrease occurred in three out of the five groups of the subsection, these representing an overall 91% weight.
Out of the subsections the manufacture of coke, and refined petroleum products, having a small weight, lagged behind the most, by 36%, year-on-year, with sales decreasing significantly in both directions.
Changes in production in the major subsections of manufacturing, November 2025
(%)
| Subsections | Volume indices of production, corresponding period of the previous year = 100.0 | Share of subsection within manufacturing at current prices | |
|---|---|---|---|
| code | denomination | ||
| CA | Manufacture of food products, beverages and tobacco products | 101.7 | 14.4 |
| CG | Manufacture of rubber and plastics products, and other non-metallic mineral products | 89.7 | 7.9 |
| CH | Manufacture of basic metals and fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment | 97.4 | 7.2 |
| CI | Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products | 107.0 | 13.1 |
| CJ | Manufacture of electrical equipment | 89.3 | 9.4 |
| CL | Manufacture of transport equipment | 95.3 | 24.7 |
Industrial production grew in Central Transdanubia (by 9.0%) and in the Northern Great Plain (by 6.1%). In the other regions volume decreases between 4.3% and 18.0% were recorded, the highest one in Northern Hungary.
The volume of total new orders in the observed divisions of manufacturing was 3.7% lower compared to November 2024. New domestic orders decreased by 1.6%, new export orders declined by 4.0%. The total stock of orders at the end of November was above the previous year’s level by 0.7%.
In January–November 2025, compared to the same period of the previous year:
Industrial production dropped by 3.5%. The volume of export sales, representing 64% of all sales declined by 2.6%, domestic sales, accounting for 36% of all sales, decreased by 4.6%.
Out of the thirteen manufacturing subsections production fell in eleven, to the greatest extent, by 12.3%, in the manufacture of electrical equipment. Output in the manufacture of transport equipment, the largest subsection, declined by 4.5%. Production volume grew in two subsections: by 12.9% in the manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products, and by 1.9% in the manufacture of wood and paper products, and printing.