Austria Producer Deflation Deepens
2026-01-30 08:27
By
Joshua Ferrer
1 min. read
Producer prices in Austria dropped by 1.9% year-on-year in December 2025, slipping further from a 1.3% fall in the previous month.
This marked the ninth consecutive month of falling prices and the sharpest since November last year, mainly driven by a faster decline in energy costs, which dropped 6.9%, deepening from a 5.2% decrease in November.
Prices for intermediate goods also edged down 0.4%, compared with a 0.3% fall the previous month.
In contrast, price growth for capital goods remained broadly stable at 0.3%, while consumer goods prices rose 1.3%, up from 1.1% in November.
On a monthly basis, producer prices fell 0.3% in December, reversing a 0.3% increase in the preceding period.
The decline mainly reflected lower costs in electricity, gas, steam, and air conditioning supply (-0.9%) and in the manufacture of chemicals and chemical products (-1.5%), partially offset by a rise in the manufacture of basic metals (+1.0%).