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

Released: 13 November 2025

Industrial producer prices1 lessened by 0.2% in the European Union in September 2025 compared to a year earlier. The prices of industrial products rose the most in Bulgaria and Romania out of the member states2, by 8.4% and 6.2%, respectively, compared to a year earlier. The most significant decreases (of 3.7% and 3.3%, respectively) occurred in Portugal and Ireland. In Hungary, industrial producer prices were up by 2.3% compared to the same period of the previous year, the price rise in Hungary being the third largest in the order of the member states. Among the other three Visegrád countries, there was a 1.1% price decrease in Poland and the same rate of price rise in Slovakia, and no datum was available for Czechia. Compared to the previous month, industrial producer prices became 0.4% lower in Hungary and 0.2% lower on average in the EU. The price level diminished in the majority of the member states over a month.

Hungary’s industrial domestic output prices increased by 0.5% on average, within which they were 2.2% higher in manufacturing, representing a weight of 62.7%, and 2.4% 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 6.1%. Prices in Hungary diminished by 0.9% in energy and intermediate producer branches together and rose by 2.4% 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 were 3.3% higher, within which the prices went up by 1.3% in manufacturing, representing a weight of 91.8%, and by 5.4% in the energy industry, with a weight of 8.0%.

According to the macro models of Trading Economics3, industrial producer prices will go on rising at a rate exceeding the EU average in Hungary. The price rise may be 3.0% in Hungary and 0.5% in the EU as a whole in the fourth quarter according to the forecast.

Table 1

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

Denomination Monthly average for 2021 = 100.0 Change compared with
previous month same month of the previous year
%
EU average 121,2 –0,2 –0,2
Euro area 120,1 –0,1 –0,3
Belgium 117,7 0,0 0,3
Bulgaria 132,5 –0,4 8,4
Czechia .. .. ..
Denmark 139,1 –0,1 0,9
Germany 122,2 –0,1 –0,7
Estonia 127,5 0,5 0,5
Ireland 101,0 –0,5 –3,3
Greece 121,5 0,2 –1,1
Spain 122,7 –0,4 0,2
France 116,5 –0,3 –0,5
Croatia 122,0 0,2 1,8
Italy 123,1 0,2 1,1
Cyprus 122,9 –0,4 –0,6
Latvia 126,7 0,2 1,1
Lithuania 116,9 –0,1 –0,8
Luxembourg 124,3 –0,5 –1,8
Hungary 146,2 –0,4 2,3
Malta 108,2 0,6 0,1
Netherlands 120,3 0,0 0,1
Austria 115,5 –0,1 –1,1
Poland 114,2 –0,5 –1,1
Portugal 115,2 –0,3 –3,7
Romania 154,5 0,9 6,2
Slovenia 125,7 –0,2 0,7
Slovakia 125,6 –0,3 1,1
Finland 114,8 –0,3 –0,3
Sweden 118,4 –0,7 0,6
Source: Eurostat database. Download date: 6 November 2025.
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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.