Press release No. 232 of 8 June 2022

Production in industry, April 2022 (provisional):
+0.7% on the previous month (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-2.2% on the same month a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)

March 2022 (revised)
-3.7% on the previous month (price, seasonally and calendar adjusted)
-3.1% on the same month a year earlier (price and calendar adjusted)

WIESBADEN – In April 2022,production in industry was up by 0.7% on the previous month on a price, seasonally and calendar adjusted basis according to provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis). A significant decrease of 3.7% (provisional figure: -3.9%) was observed in March 2022 compared with February 2022. Compared with April 2021, the decrease in calendar adjusted production in industry amounted to 2.2%.

In April 2022, production in industry excluding energy and construction was up by 0.3% in seasonally and calendar adjusted terms. Within industry, the production of capital goods was up by 0.9% and the production of intermediate goods by 0.4%. The production of consumer goods decreased by 1.3%. Outside industry, energy production in April 2022 was up by 16.1% on the previous month, after the revised figure had declined by just under 11% in March 2022. The high rates of change are due to fluctuations in energy production from wind power.Production in construction in April 2022 was down by 2.1% on the previous month.

The rates of change relate 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 in the table "Index of production in manufacturing" (42153-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.

Methodological notes:

The differing comparative periods must be taken into account in all press releases on short-term indicators. Short-term economic monitoring focuses on comparisons with the previous month or previous quarter. These reflect short-term economic trends. A calendar adjusted comparison with the previous year is intended to offer a long-term comparison of levels and is not subject to seasonal fluctuations or calendar effects. The results of month-on-month, quarter-on-quarter and year-on-year comparisons may differ considerably at present because of the Covid-19 crisis and the war in Ukraine.

The production index also forms part of the Crisis monitor (www.destatis.de/krisenmonitor), by means of which the Federal Statistical Office compares the development of major short-term indicators in the Covid-19 crisis and the financial and economic crisis of 2008/2009. It is also available on the “Corona Statistics” webpage (www.destatis.de/corona) and in the Dashboard Germany (www.dashboard-deutschland.de), together with other indicators which can be used to assess the economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. The Dashboard Germany portal of the Federal Statistical Office combines up-to-date indicators of official statistics and indicators of other data providers on the topics of economy and finance as well as health and mobility.

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