In May 2024, industrial production prices for the total (domestic market and non-domestic market) increased by almost 0.7% compared to the level recorded in April 2024. Prices inched up 0.5% on the domestic market and 0.8% on the non-domestic market.
In May 2024 compared to May 2023, the biggest price decline, of 6.3%, was recorded in the energy industry, being followed by the intermediate goods industry, with a nearly 3% drop. Instead, prices in the capital goods industry rose by 6.2%, in the consumer goods industry by 3.5%, and in the durable consumer goods industry by 1.4%.
By breakdown, the mining industry saw a decline of 8% in production prices, in the context of a 17% plunge in the field of extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas.
Prices in the production and supply of electric power and heat energy, gas, steam and air conditioning fell by 9% in May 2024 versus May 2023.
The sector of water collection, treatment and supply saw a 17% increase in production prices.
In May 2024 compared to May 2023, prices in the manufacturing industry advanced 2.3%, with the biggest increases, of 23% and 18.5%, being recorded for the repair, maintenance and installation of machinery and equipment, and for the manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products.
At the opposite pole, production prices fell by 10% in the metallurgical industry and by 9% in the manufacture of chemicals and chemical products.