Industrial producer prices drop nearly 3 percent

Industrial producer prices were 2.9% lower on average in January 2026 than one year earlier. Domestic output prices were cut by 2.8% and non-domestic ones by 2.9% compared to January in the previous year. Compared to the previous month, domestic output prices were unchanged and non-domestic output prices rose by 1.4%, so industrial producer prices as a whole were 0.9% higher.

In January 2026 compared to January 2025:

Domestic output prices decreased by 2.8% on average, within which they lessened by 3.2% in manufacturing, representing a weight of 67.6%, and by 2.2% in the energy industry (electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply), with a weight of 30.0%.

Prices in Hungary diminished by 4.0% in energy and intermediate producer branches together and by 1.4% in capital goods producer branches and rose by 1.2% in consumer goods producer branches out of the end-use groups of the producer branches of industry.

Industrial non-domestic output prices were reduced by 2.9%, within which by 3.4% in manufacturing, representing a weight of 90.1%, and by 1.7% in the energy industry, with a weight of 9.7%.