Press release No. 056 of 13 February 2023
Producer prices of agricultural products, total, December 2022
+29.7% on the same month a year earlier
-0.4% on the previous month
+32.9% on an annual average in 2022 compared with 2021
Prices of plant products
+13.4% on the same month a year earlier
+27.7% on an annual average in 2022 compared with 2021
Prices of animal products
+42.3% on the same month a year earlier
+36.8% on an annual average in 2022 compared with 2021
WIESBADEN – Producer prices of agricultural products were 29.7% higher in December 2022 than in the same month a year earlier. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the year-on-year increase continued to slow. The year-on-year rate of change had been +31.9% in November 2022 and +37.9% in October 2022. Compared with November 2022, prices fell by 0.4%. The prices of plant products rose by 13.4% on the same month a year earlier, which was a smaller increase than that of animal products prices (+42.3%). The rate of change had been +16.7% for plant products in November 2022 and +43.7% for animal products. Compared with the previous month, the prices of plant products fell by 2.3% in December 2022, while the prices of animal products rose by 0.9%.
Methodological note:
Complete results for years, business years and months of the producer prices of agricultural products are available in the GENESIS-Online database in tables 61211-0001 to 61211-0003.
