Industry turnover increased by 0.3% in 2025, reversing the 1.2% drop recorded in 2024, according to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE).
Growth was driven by demand in the national market, whose average annual variation increased to +2.1% (it was −2.3% in 2024).
Sales to the foreign market, on the contrary, contracted 2.7% in 2025, after an increase of 0.8% in the previous year.
Over the year as a whole, declining employment and wages diverged: employment fell 0.3% on an annual average, while wages rose 5.1% (compared to 0% and 7.2% in 2024).
In the fourth quarter of 2025, industrial sales grew 0.6% year-on-year, slowing down 0.5 percentage points compared to the previous quarter. Sales to the national market in the quarter increased by 2.7% (2.1% in the previous quarter).
In December, the industrial turnover index registered a year-on-year growth of 2%, reversing the 1.3% drop in November.
Excluding the Energy group, the increase was more pronounced, 3.4% (0.9% in November). In December, the indices relating to the domestic and foreign markets varied +1.9% and +2.3% (they were +2.4% and −7.4% in November).
Still in December, year-on-year changes in employment and wages were −0.2% and +4.4%.
For 2025, average rates confirmed −0.3% in employment and +5.1% in wages.
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