Producer Price Index – Manufacturing (PPI-M) - 2^nd Quarter 2025

 Highlights

 (Base Period: 2018=100)

1. 1.  PPI-M measures changes in the effective prices received by producers of the manufacturing sector for that part of their output sold on the domestic market. It does not cover Export Oriented Enterprises, the products of which are mainly meant for export.

2. 2.  PPI-M which stood at 161.2 in March 2025, registered an increase of 4.8 points (+3.0%) to reach 166.0 in June 2025. On a monthly basis, PPI-M increased by 1.1 points (+0.7%) in April, 1.5 points (+0.9%) in May and 2.2 points (+1.3%) in June 2025.

3. 3. The average PPI-M for the second quarter of 2025 stood at 164.0, i.e., an increase of 3.5 points (+2.2%) from 160.5 in the first quarter of 2025. This increase was mainly attributable to higher prices of “Food products and beverages" (+2.1%), “Rubber and plastic products" (+10.4%), “Wearing apparel" (+5.5%), “Fabricated metal products" (+2.7%), “Other transport equipment" (+6.8%), “Other non-metallic mineral products" (+1.6%) and “Other manufacturing products" (+5.2%).

1. 4.  Compared to the corresponding quarter of 2024, the average PPI-M for the second quarter of 2025 increased by 9.5 points (+6.1%), mainly explained by higher prices of “Food products and beverages" (+5.0%), “Wearing apparel" (+16.0%), “Rubber and plastic products" (+11.0%), “Machinery and equipment, n.e.c" (+24.6%), “Fabricated metal products" (+3.9%), “Chemicals and Chemical Products" (+3.4%), “Motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers" (+29.5%), “Textiles" (+13.5%) and “Other manufacturing products" (+20.4%).

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