Comparison of changes in the industrial producer prices in the EU member states, November 2025

Released: 15 January 2026

Industrial producer prices1 lessened by 1.3% in the European Union in November 2025 compared to a year earlier. The prices of industrial products rose the most in Bulgaria out of the member states2, by 12% compared to a year earlier. The most significant decrease of 5.9% occurred in Ireland. In Hungary, industrial producer prices diminished by 2.7% compared to the same period of the previous year, which was the fourth largest price decrease in the order of the member states. Among the other three Visegrád countries, prices became 1.8% lower in Poland and 1.2% higher in Slovakia compared to November 2024, and no datum was available for Czechia. Compared to the previous month, industrial producer prices lessened by 0.3% in Hungary and rose by 0.4% on average in the EU.

Hungary’s industrial domestic output prices fell by 1.8% on average, within which they diminished by 1.1% in manufacturing, representing a weight of 62.7%, and by 2.8% in the energy industry (electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply), with a weight of 35.4%. Food industry output prices were up by 4.1%. Prices in Hungary became 3.1% lower in energy and intermediate producer branches together and 1.5% lower in capital goods producer branches and 4.0% higher in consumer goods producer branches out of the end-use groups of the producer branches of industry.

Industrial non-domestic output prices lessened by 3.1%, within which they were cut by 2.2% in manufacturing, representing a weight of 91.8%, and by 12% in the energy industry, with a weight of 8.0%.

According to the macro models of Trading Economics3, industrial producer prices will increase by 2.6% on average in Hungary and by 1.7% in the EU as a whole in 2026.

Table 1

Industrial producer prices in EU member countries, November 2025 (unadjusted data)

Denomination Monthly average for 2021 = 100.0 Change compared with
previous month same month of the previous year
%
EU average 121.9 0.4 –1.3
Euro area 120.7 0.4 –1.5
Belgium 118.2 0.6 –1.1
Bulgaria 139.0 1.6 12.1
Czechia .. .. ..
Denmark 141.0 1.7 –1.5
Germany 122.5 0.1 –1.2
Estonia 128.2 0.2 1.1
Ireland 103.0 1.1 –5.9
Greece 123.3 1.8 0.1
Spain 122.7 –0.4 –2.2
France 117.9 0.9 –3.2
Croatia 122.5 0.4 1.9
Italy 124.0 1.0 –0.2
Cyprus 122.7 –0.6 0.1
Latvia 128.5 0.2 2.1
Lithuania 117.7 0.4 –0.9
Luxembourg 123.5 –0.2 –2.4
Hungary 146.5 –0.3 –2.7
Malta 108.8 0.2 0.5
Netherlands 120.2 0.2 –1.2
Austria 116.1 0.3 –1.3
Poland 113.9 0.0 –1.8
Portugal 115.3 –0.1 –3.3
Romania 156.2 0.3 4.8
Slovenia 126.2 0.3 1.0
Slovakia 124.9 0.0 1.2
Finland 115.6 0.3 0.3
Sweden 120.4 1.3 –1.2
Source: Eurostat database. Download date: 12 January 2026.
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Footnotes

  1. When publishing industrial producer prices, Eurostat considers total sections B, C and D, as well as water collection, treatment and supply from section E, while HCSO’s methodology covers total section E as well, therefore, data included in Eurostat and HCSO first releases may differ.

  2. No datum was available for Czechia.

  3. Data from Trading Economics are available following registration.