NEWS RELEASE PRICES 22 DECEMBER 2014

The producer price index (PPI) in November 2014 was 215.8 points (4. quarter 2005 = 100), 0.6% higher than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 267.8 points which is 1.5% higher than in October 2014 (effect on the index 0.5%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 223.1 points, 0.2% higher (0.1%). The PPI for food products decreased by 0.3% and the PPI for other manufactured products increased by 0.3%.

The PPI for domestically sold products was 0.2% (-0.1%) lower than in the previous month and the index for exported products increased by 0.8% (0.7%).

Compared with November 2013 the PPI has increased by 6.1%. In the same period the PPI for fish products rose by 4.8% while the PPI for power intensive industry increased by 9.1%. The PPI for food products rose by 0.5% from the previous year.

Monthly changes (%)
Power 
intensive
Marine industry Food  Domestic Exported
  PPI products  products production sales products
2013
November 0.9 0.8 2.9 0.1 -0.5 1.4
December -2.3 -2.4 -7.0 -0.3 2.2 -3.7
2014
January -1.6 -3.0 -0.6 0.4 -0.5 -2.0
February -0.1 -1.1 -2.0 -0.4 2.4 -0.9
March -0.9 1.5 -2.7 0.0 -1.1 -0.9
April 0.5 2.6 -0.8 0.7 0.6 0.5
May 1.7 0.5 7.3 0.0 -1.9 2.9
June 1.0 1.4 -2.2 -0.1 2.6 0.4
July 0.8 1.3 4.4 0.1 -2.3 1.9
August 3.5 2.4 7.7 0.1 0.5 4.6
September 1.7 -1.8 4.8 -0.4 1.4 1.9
October 1.2 2.0 0.7 0.7 0.7 1.3
November 0.6 1.5 0.2 -0.3 -0.2 0.8

Annual changes (%)
Power 
intensive
Marine industry Food  Domestic Exported
  PPI products  products production sales products
2013
November -5.9 -5.3 -11.2 3.5 0.8 -7.8
December -7.1 -7.5 -15.8 3.5 4.1 -10.3
2014
January -12.3 -10.8 -23.0 3.3 1.7 -16.3
February -9.9 -8.9 -22.7 2.1 5.2 -14.2
March -9.5 -4.0 -23.5 1.2 2.9 -13.0
April -3.3 2.9 -14.9 2.0 4.5 -5.6
May -2.2 1.6 -8.3 1.7 1.6 -3.5
June -1.8 1.6 -9.8 2.1 3.9 -3.6
July -0.8 3.0 -5.8 2.3 1.8 -1.7
August 5.6 6.0 7.0 2.5 4.3 6.1
September 4.4 2.5 8.5 1.6 2.9 4.9
October 6.5 4.1 12.1 0.9 3.9 7.4
November 6.1 4.8 9.1 0.5 4.2 6.8

Statistics

Further Information

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