PRESS RELEASE
Brussels, 4th June 2014
BELGIUM - April 2014 : Output price index -0.8%
In April 2014, compared to the previous month, the producer price index of industry excluding construction has
decreased by 0.8%. A split of this figure in energy and the rest shows a fall of 1.2% for energy and a fall of 0.2% for
total industry except energy. A further breakdown of total industry except energy obtains 0.0% for intermediate
goods. except energy, -0.6% for capital goods, +0.1% for durable consumer goods and 0.0% for non-durable
consumer goods.
When the general producer price index is subdivided according to destination, a fall of 1.5% on the domestic
market and a fall of 0.3% on the non-domestic markets can be observed.
Compared to April of the previous year, the producer price index of total industry excluding construction has
decreased by 3.4%. For the domestic market it fell by 5.1%, for the non-domestic markets there was a fall of 3.9%.
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Global market
jan
feb
march
apr
may
june
july
aug
sep
oct
nov
dec
Year
2011
105.6
107.5
109.0
110.5
109.8
109.6
109.6
108.8
109.4
109.1
109.0
109.2
108.9
2012
110.5
112.2
113.2
113.6
113.2
112.2
112.2
113.2
113.8
113.8
113.7
113.9
113.0
2013
114.0
114.3
114.3
112.8
112.3
112.2
112.6
111.9
111.7
111.0
110.8
111.1
2014
110.5
110.5
109.8
109.0
112.4
109.9
Domestic market
jan
feb
march
apr
may
june
july
aug
sep
oct
nov
dec
Year
2011
105.2
107.2
108.3
109.5
109.3
109.0
108.6
107.9
108.5
108.0
107.8
107.9
108.1
2012
109.0
111.1
111.3
111.7
112.1
111.9
111.5
111.5
111.9
112.8
113.5
114.8
111.9
2013
114.9
114.9
114.8
113.3
112.8
112.8
113.2
111.7
110.8
110.3
110.3
110.7
2014
110.4
110.0
109.3
107.6
112.5
109.3
Non-domestic market
jan
feb
march
apr
may
june
july
aug
sep
oct
nov
dec
Year
2011
105.8
107.7
109.6
111.2
110.2
110.1
110.4
109.6
110.2
110.1
110.1
110.3
109.6
2012
111.9
113.2
114.8
115.2
114.2
112.5
112.8
114.6
115.4
114.6
113.9
113.1
113.9
2013
113.3
113.9
113.9
112.3
111.9
111.6
112.0
111.7
111.9
110.7
110.2
110.1
2014
109.0
109.0
108.3
107.9
Gross Indices (2010=100)
Total industry excluding construction
Price movements of marketed production
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108.6
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Additional information
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Source
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Additional figures
⇒ Tables with detailed data can be found on:
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⇒ To obtain an overview of Belgian and European business trends, please refer to the short-term indicators
portal site :
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⇒ All methodological explanations of figures can be obtained from the Thematic Directorate Prices.
⇒ Besides producer price indices, we also have many other short-term data : indices of hours worked, production
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