Industrial producer prices lessen by 0.8% on average in August 2025 compared to previous month and 2.3% higher than a year earlier
Industrial producer prices were 2.3% higher on average in August 2025 than one year earlier. Domestic output prices rose by 0.9% and non-domestic ones by 3.0% compared to August in the previous year. Compared to the previous month, domestic output prices lessened by 0.5% and non-domestic output prices by 1.0%, so industrial producer prices as a whole decreased by 0.8%.
In August 2025 compared to August 2024:
Domestic output prices increased by 0.9% on average, within which they were 1.9% higher in manufacturing, representing a weight of 62.7%, and 1.1% lower in the energy industry (electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply), with a weight of 35.4%. Food industry output prices were up by 6.8%.
Prices in Hungary fell by 0.5% in energy and intermediate producer branches together, and rose by 2.2% in capital goods producer and by 5.7% in consumer goods producer branches out of the end-use groups of the producer branches of industry.
Industrial non-domestic output prices were 3.0% higher, within which the prices went up by 2.4% in manufacturing, representing a weight of 91.8%, and decreased by 3.8% in the energy industry, with a weight of 8.0%.
In January–August 2025 compared to January–August 2024:
Domestic output prices were 3.7% and non-domestic output prices 7.7% higher, so industrial producer prices as a whole rose by 6.4%.
Industrial price indices
(same period of previous year = 100.0%)
(%)
| Year, month | Domestic output | Non-domestic output | Producer price index, total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 August | 101.2 | 104.0 | 103.0 |
| September | 99.3 | 101.7 | 100.9 |
| October | 99.5 | 104.1 | 102.6 |
| November | 103.2 | 110.2 | 107.9 |
| December | 104.0 | 111.5 | 109.0 |
| 2025 January | 106.1 | 110.6 | 109.1 |
| February | 105.4 | 109.6 | 108.2 |
| March | 104.7 | 108.6 | 107.3 |
| April | 103.9 | 109.9 | 107.9 |
| May | 103.9 | 108.3 | 106.9 |
| June | 103.3 | 106.0 | 105.1 |
| July | 101.6 | 105.9 | 104.5 |
| August | 100.9 | 103.0 | 102.3 |