Industrial capacity utilisation
The statistics show quarterly developments of capacity utilisation in industry, in total and broken down by industry. The survey is coordinated with other economy-based surveys.
The publication of industrial capacity utilisation has ceased. The background to this decision was that, since January 2025, the Business Tendency Survey had been included in the official statistics. This meant that both Statistics Sweden’s and the National Institute of Economic Research’s (NIER) measures of capacity utilisation were part of the official statistics. Statistics Sweden assessed that it was not necessary to have two official measures of industrial capacity utilisation, which led to the decision to discontinue the survey.
The product page will remain available for at least one year to facilitate the transition and enable comparisons between the surveys conducted by NIER and Statistics Sweden. As support, there is also an in-depth article explaining the differences in capacity utilisation levels between the surveys. The article also includes a final table comparing the design of the two surveys. The full analysis can be read on the Statistics Sweden´s website Industrial capacity utilisation (scb.se) under the heading "Fördjupad information".
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2026-02-20
Capacity utilisation in industry decreased by 0.6 percentage points in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with the third quarter of 2025 in seasonally adjusted figures.
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Name Type Date Reason for lower capacity utilisation, percentage change Table 2026-02-20 Reason for lower capacity utilisation, shares Graph 2026-02-20 Capacity utilisation in industry, percent Table 2026-02-20 Capacity utilisation in industry Graph 2026-02-20
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