Short-term Industrial Indicators: Q3/2025
- When compared to Q3 2024, working-day adjusted industrial turnover increased by 1.5 per cent.
- The highest increase was recorded in intermediate goods (5.1 per cent).
- When compared to the corresponding quarter of 2024, industrial employment and gross wages and salaries went up by 0.6 per cent and 4.6 per cent, respectively, while no change was registered in the overall industrial hours worked.
- When compared to Q2 2025, seasonally adjusted industrial turnover went down by 2.1 per cent, with the highest decrease occurring in consumer goods (4.2 per cent).
Short-term Industrial Indicators: Q3/2025
Short-term Industrial Indicators: Q3/2025
During the third quarter of 2025, seasonally adjusted industrial turnover dropped by 2.1 per cent when compared to the previous quarter. The highest decrease was recorded in consumer goods (4.2 per cent), followed by a decline in capital goods (2.5 per cent). On the other hand, increases were registered in intermediate goods (4.9 per cent) and energy (1.3 per cent) (Table 1).
When compared to the second quarter of 2025, the overall seasonally adjusted industrial employment did not change (Table 3). However, industrial hours worked (Table 5) and industrial gross wages and salaries (Table 7) decreased by 2.8 per cent and 0.8 per cent, respectively.
Annual comparison
When compared to the corresponding quarter of 2024, working-day adjusted industrial turnover increased by 1.5 per cent. Increases were registered in intermediate goods (5.1 per cent), energy (4.4 per cent) and capital goods (4.0 per cent). On the contrary, consumer goods went down by 4.0 per cent (Table 2).
An increase of 0.6 per cent was recorded in the year-on-year unadjusted industrial employment (Table 4). No change was registered in the overall working-day adjusted industrial hours worked (Table 6). However, industrial gross wages and salaries went up by 4.6 per cent (Table 8).
Chart 1. Annual industrial turnover working-day adjusted variation
(% change compared with same quarter of the previous year)
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Methodological Notes
1. This news release comprises a number of business cycle indicators showing the quarterly evolution of the market of goods and services in the industrial sector. It records the evolution of turnover, employment, wages and salaries, and hours worked over long periods of time. The objective of these indicators is to measure the market activity in the industrial sector. These indicators are compiled as a “five-year chain-linked index”. The current base and reference years are 2021. The results are compiled and published according to the statistical classification of economic activities in the European Community, NACE Rev. 2.
2. The data is collected by means of a monthly questionnaire which is sent to a representative sample of business units categorised within the industrial sector. The data is then grossed up to represent the entire industrial population.
3. For the scope of the index calculation, NACE divisions 09, 12, 15, 19, 24 and NACE groups 27.5 and 30.9 are excluded because of their negligible activity.
| Main Industrial Groupings | Turnover | Employment | Gross wages and salaries |
Hours worked |
| Intermediate goods | 31.8 | 30.2 | 32.1 | 29.6 |
| Energy | 21.3 | 5.8 | 5.2 | 7.7 |
| Capital goods | 16.6 | 23.2 | 23.5 | 24.5 |
| Consumer goods | 30.3 | 40.8 | 39.2 | 38.2 |
| Durable consumer goods | 1.9 | 5.8 | 4.4 | 2.8 |
| Non-durable consumer goods | 28.4 | 35.0 | 34.8 | 35.4 |
| Total industry | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
11. The calculation of the percentage changes from the indices table may slightly differ from the percentage changes published due to rounding.
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