Industrial Production Price Index grew 1.6% in December, up by 0.4 percentage points from November. Excluding the Energy grouping, the index year on year change rate was 0.5% (same rate as in the previous month).
The monthly change rate of the aggregate index was 0.2% (decrease of 0.2% in the same period of 2023).
In the 4th quarter of 2024 producer prices grew 1.0% (1.6% in the previous quarter).
For the year 2024, the IPPI recorded an average annual change rate of 0,3%, (nil in 2023). The domestic and external markets indices showed changes of 0.5% and -0.2%, respectively (-1.2% and 2.4% in the previous year). Excluding the Energy group, the average annual change for the total index was nil (compared to 3.5% in 2023).