Industrial Producer Prices 2.3% Up Year-on-Year in Hungary

Industrial producer prices were 2.3% higher on average in Hungary in August 2025 than one year earlier. Domestic output prices rose by 0.9% and non-domestic ones by 3.0% compared to August in the previous year, the country's Central Statistical Office (KSH) reports.

Compared to the previous month, domestic output prices lessened by 0.5% and non-domestic output prices by 1.0%, so industrial producer prices as a whole decreased by 0.8%.

In August 2025 compared to August 2024:
Domestic output prices increased by 0.9% on average, within which they were 1.9% higher in manufacturing, representing a weight of 62.7%, and 1.1% 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 6.8%.

Prices in Hungary fell by 0.5% in energy and intermediate producer branches together, and rose by 2.2% in capital goods producer and by 5.7% in consumer goods producer branches out of the end-use groups of the producer branches of industry.

Industrial non-domestic output prices were 3.0% higher, within which the prices went up by 2.4% in manufacturing, representing a weight of 91.8%, and decreased by 3.8% in the energy industry, with a weight of 8.0%.

In January–August 2025 compared to January-August 2024:
Domestic output prices were 3.7% and non-domestic output prices 7.7% higher, so industrial producer prices as a whole rose by 6.4%.