NEWS RELEASE PRICES 27 FEBRUARY 2015

The producer price index (PPI) in January 2015 was 223.4 points (4. quarter 2005 = 100), 0.2% higher than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 276.1 points which is 1.0% higher than in Desember 2014 (effect on the index 0.3%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 236.0 points, 0.6% lower (-0.2%). The PPI for food products decreased by 0.2% (0%) and the PPI for other manufactured products increased by 0.7% (0.1%).

The PPI for domestically sold products was 0.1% (0%) lower than in the previous month while the index for exported products increased by 0.3% (0.2%).

Compared with January 2014 the PPI has increased by 14.2%. The PPI for fish products increased by 14.0% and the PPI for power intensive industry increased by 24.8%. In the same period the PPI for food products rose by 0.5%.

Monthly changes (%)
      Power       
      intensive      
    Marine industry Food  Domestic Exported
  PPI products  products production sales products
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
December 3.3 2.1 6.5 0.2 0.9 4.2
2015            
January 0.2 1.0 -0.6 -0.2 -0.1 0.3
Annual changes (%)
      Power       
      intensive      
    Marine industry Food  Domestic Exported
  PPI products  products production sales products
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
December 12.2 9.6 24.9 1.1 2.9 15.6
2015            
January 14.2 14.0 24.8 0.5 3.3 18.3

Statistics

Further Information

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