The European Union’s average index was up 6.4% on the year, the statistics office Eurostat said.
The highest increases in the total index were observed in the United Kingdom (+11.7%), Lithuania (+11.4%) and Latvia (+9.8%), and the smallest in Malta (+0.8%) and Slovakia (+3%). The only decrease was recorded in Sweden (-0.7%).
In October from a month earlier, Romanian industrial prices inched up 0.3%, also the fifth biggest growth in the EU bloc. The EU’s average growth was 0.2%.
The largest monthly increases were registered in Hungary (+1.3%), France (+0.5%), Slovakia and the United Kingdom (both +0.4%), and the largest decreases in Denmark (-0.7%), Ireland (-0.6%) and Belgium (-0.5%).
Romania’s industrial producer price index inched up 0.4% in October from a month earlier and was up 8.4% compared with the same month of 2010, according to data from the country’s statistics institute released earlier Friday.