The Industry Turnover Index registered a nominal year-on-year change of -4.3% in April (3.9% in the previous month). Excluding the Energy grouping, industrial sales decreased by 1.7% (8.9% increase in March). The change rates in the indices for the domestic and external markets were -5.5% and -2.5%, respectively (-0.5% and 10.3% in March). It should be noted that April 2023 had one working day less than the same month in 2022 and five days less than the previous month.

The employment, wages and salaries and hours worked (adjusted of calendar effects) indices showed year-on-year changes of 1.0%, 7.1% and -1.4% (1.2%, 7.8% and 4.6% in March), respectively.