Press release No. 121 of 7 April 2020

February 2020 (provisional): production in industry
+0.3% on the previous month (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-1.2% on the same month a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)

January 2020 (revised): production in industry
+3.2% on the previous month (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-0.9% on the same month a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)

WIESBADEN – In February 2020, the coronavirus pandemic did not yet have any notable impact on the production in industry in Germany. The production in industry was up by 0.3% on the previous month on a price, seasonally and calendar adjusted basis according to provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). The data do not yet contain the latest figures of the local units in Rheinland-Pfalz but estimates thereof.

In February 2020, production in industry excluding energy and construction was up by 0.4%. Within industry, the production of intermediate goods increased by 0.8% and the production of consumer goods by 1.8. The production of capital goods showed a decrease by 0.3%. Outside industry, energy production was up by 2.7% in February 2020 and the production in construction decreased by 1.0%.

In January 2020, the corrected figure shows an increase of 3.2% (primary +3.0%) from December 2019.

Methodological notes

The rates of change refer to the production index for industry (2015 = 100). Seasonal and calendar adjustment was made using the X-13 JDemetra+ method.

Basic data and long time series on the production index in industry are also available through the table "Index of production in manufacturing" (42153-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.