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Domestic output prices were up 1.9% compared with May 2025, while non-domestic output prices fell 1.8%. Compared with the previous month, domestic output prices were 1.3% lower and non-domestic output prices fell 1.9%, bringing overall industrial producer prices down 1.7% month-on-month.
Within domestic output prices, manufacturing prices rose 2.9% year-on-year. Manufacturing accounted for 67.6% of domestic output prices. Prices in the energy industry, which includes electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply and had a weight of 30%, fell 1.3%.
Among the end-use groups of industrial producer branches, domestic prices rose 3.2% in the energy and intermediate producer branches combined, and increased 0.4% in consumer goods producer branches. Prices in capital goods producer branches fell 2.3%.
Industrial non-domestic output prices were 1.8% lower than a year earlier. Within this category, manufacturing prices, representing a weight of 90.1%, fell 3.9%. Energy industry prices, with a weight of 9.7%, rose 19.8%, affected by the international environment.
In January-May 2026, domestic output prices were 0.1% lower and non-domestic output prices fell 1.5% compared with the same period of the previous year. Industrial producer prices as a whole were down 1.0%.
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