Industrial capacity utilisation

Official statistics of Sweden

Upcoming publishing: 2026-02-20

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 will cease after the release of data for the fourth quarter of 2025, which will be published in February 2026.

The background to this decision is that, as of January 2025, the Business Tendency Survey is included in official statistics. This means that both Statistics Sweden’s and the National Institute of Economic Research’s (NIER) measures of capacity utilisation are now part of the official statistics. Statistics Sweden has assessed that it is not necessary to have two official measures of capacity utilisation, which has 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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Capacity utilisation in industry nearly unchanged

2025-11-21

Capacity utilisation in industry decreased by 0.2 percentage points in the third quarter of 2025 compared with the second quarter of 2025 in seasonally adjusted figures.

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