Mucahithan Avcioglu<\/p>\n
08 May 2026\u2022Update: 08 May 2026<\/p>\n
Germany\u2019s industrial production unexpectedly declined 0.7% in March from the previous month, missing market expectations for a 0.4% rise, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said Friday.<\/p>\n
The figure followed a revised 0.5% monthly fall in February, while the preliminary estimate for the month had shown a 0.3% decrease.<\/p>\n
On an annual basis, industrial production dropped 2.8% in March.<\/p>\n
The less volatile three-month comparison showed that production was 1.2% lower in the January-March period than in the previous three months.<\/p>\n
The monthly decline was mainly driven by a 4% fall in energy production and a 2.7% drop in the manufacture of machinery and equipment.<\/p>\n
By contrast, production in the construction sector and the automotive industry each rose 1.9%, limiting the overall decline.<\/p>\n
Excluding energy and construction, industrial production also fell 0.9% month-on-month in March.<\/p>\n
Production of capital goods dropped 1.6%, while consumer goods output decreased 1.9%. Intermediate goods production, however, rose 0.8%.<\/p>\n
Compared with March 2025, production in industry excluding energy and construction was down 4.1%.<\/p>\n
Production in energy-intensive industrial branches increased 1.2% in March from February, while the three-month comparison showed output in these branches was 2.1% higher in the January-March period than in the previous three months.<\/p>\n
On an annual basis, production in energy-intensive industrial branches fell 1.2% in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mucahithan Avcioglu 08 May 2026\u2022Update: 08 May 2026 Germany\u2019s industrial production unexpectedly declined 0.7% in March from the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,248238],"class_list":{"0":"post-945589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-sitekeywords"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116537819429780558","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}