Industrial producer prices 3.4% lower on average in December 2025 than a year earlier and realised on a 0.4% lower level compared to previous month
Industrial producer prices were 3.4% lower on average in December 2025 than one year earlier. Domestic output prices were cut by 1.9% and non-domestic ones by 4.1% compared to December in the previous year. Compared to the November level, domestic output prices lessened by 0.1% and non-domestic output prices by 0.5%, so industrial producer prices as a whole were 0.4% lower. In 2025, domestic output prices rose by 2.3% and non-domestic output prices by 5.0%, so industrial producer prices together were 4.1% higher than in 2024.
In December 2025 compared to December 2024:
Domestic output prices decreased by 1.9% on average, within which the prices lessened by 2.6% in manufacturing, representing a weight of 62.7%, and by 0.8% in the energy industry (electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply), with a weight of 35.4%. Food industry output prices were up by 2.4%.
Prices in Hungary diminished by 3.0% in energy and intermediate producer branches together and by 2.0% in capital goods producer branches and rose by 2.6% in consumer goods producer branches out of the end-use groups of the producer branches of industry.
Industrial non-domestic output prices were cut by 4.1%, within which the prices fell by 3.6% in manufacturing, representing a weight of 91.8%, and by 11.1% in the energy industry, with a weight of 8.0%.
In 2025 compared to previous year:
Industrial producer prices as a whole were 4.1% higher. Domestic output prices rose by 2.3% on average, within which manufacturing prices increased by 2.5% and energy industry prices by 1.7%.
Industrial domestic output prices were up by 1.4% in energy and intermediate producer branches, by 3.0% in capital goods producer and by 5.1% in consumer goods producer branches out of the end-use groups of the producer branches of industry.
Industrial non-domestic output prices grew by 5.0%, within which the prices were 2.4% higher in manufacturing and an average 11.7% higher in the energy industry, representing a small weight.
Industrial price indices
(same period of previous year = 100.0%)
(%)
| Year, month | Domestic output | Non-domestic output | Producer price index, total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 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 |
| September | 100.5 | 103.3 | 102.4 |
| October | 100.9 | 102.2 | 101.8 |
| November | 98.2 | 96.9 | 97.3 |
| December | 98.1 | 95.9 | 96.6 |