Orders and turnover in industry, August 2025
Orders in industry increased in August
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2025-10-10 8.00
Total orders in industry increased by 7.2 percent in August 2025 compared with July, in seasonally adjusted figures. Compared with August 2024, total orders in industry increased by 7.3 percent in calendar-adjusted figures.
A majority of industrial subsectors recorded a positive development on a monthly basis. Total orders in industry increased on both the domestic market and the export market compared with July. Domestic market increased by 4.3 percent and export market increased by 8.0 percent, in seasonally adjusted figures.
Total orders in industry increased on an annual basis
On an annual basis, total orders in industry increased by 7.3 percent compared with August 2024, in calendar-adjusted figures. Orders received from customers in Sweden increased by 3.0 percent and orders received from customers abroad increased by 10.1 percent.
So far this year, total orders in industry have been 5.3 percent higher than the corresponding period, January to August 2024, in calendar-adjusted figures. The domestic market decreased by 0.2 percent while the export market increased by 9.1 percent.
Total orders in industry in July revised
The figures for August are preliminary. Since the previous publication, the seasonally adjusted development in July compared with Juni has been revised upwards by 0.7 percentage points to -1.7 percent. The calendar-adjusted development in July compared with July of the previous year has been revised upwards by 1.0 percentage points to -0.4 percent.
Percentage changes in orders
| NACE 2007 | INDUSTRY TITLE | August 2025/July 2025[1] | August 2025/August 2024[2] | Jan-August 2025/Jan-August 2024[2] | Share of orders in total industry 2024 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tot | Dom | Exp | Tot | Dom | Exp | Tot | Dom | Exp | |||
| B+C | Mines and quarries and manufacturing industry | 7,2 | 4,3 | 8,0 | 7,3 | 3,0 | 10,1 | 5,3 | -0,2 | 9,1 | 100,0 |
| - | Intermediate goods industry | 9,3 | 6,8 | 12,6 | 7,7 | 4,2 | 11,2 | 6,8 | -0,6 | 12,3 | 38,6 |
| - | Energy excl. NACE rev 2. Section D, E | 5,3 | .. | .. | 2,7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6,5 |
| - | Capital goods industry | 13,0 | 12,0 | 13,2 | 5,2 | 7,9 | 3,7 | 2,0 | 2,6 | 1,6 | 34,0 |
| - | Non-durable consumer goods industry | -1,6 | -0,6 | 0,9 | 12,6 | 2,2 | 24,2 | 11,7 | 0,6 | 21,6 | 19,5 |
| - | Durable consumer goods industry | -0,8 | .. | .. | -1,4 | .. | .. | 3,6 | .. | .. | 1,5 |
| B | Mines and quarries | 12,2 | 8,8 | 16,8 | 3,8 | 6,4 | 3,1 | 13,4 | 5,3 | 21,9 | 2,4 |
| C | Manufacturing industry | 7,1 | 4,2 | 9,0 | 7,4 | 2,8 | 10,6 | 5,1 | -0,5 | 8,8 | 97,6 |
| 10-12 | Food product, beverage and tobacco industry | -0,8 | .. | .. | -4,5 | .. | .. | -3,0 | .. | .. | 9,3 |
| 13-15 | Industry for textile and leather products | 28,9 | 8,9 | 59,5 | 19,0 | 0,2 | 37,0 | 9,4 | 12,0 | 7,5 | 0,5 |
| 16 | Industry for wood and wood products | 9,5 | 2,5 | 9,9 | -2,3 | 4,8 | -13,1 | -0,9 | 1,9 | -5,5 | 4,0 |
| 17 | Industry for pulp, paper and paper products | -0,2 | -9,6 | 9,6 | -8,0 | -11,6 | -6,9 | -6,7 | -5,5 | -7,0 | 5,5 |
| 18 | Industry for printing and reproduction of recorded media | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 0,5 |
| 19 | Industry for coke and refined petroleum products | 5,3 | .. | .. | 2,7 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6,5 |
| 20-21 | Industry for chemicals and industry for pharmaceutical products | 1,5 | 1,7 | 2,0 | 29,7 | 15,0 | 31,9 | 21,7 | 6,1 | 24,1 | 11,9 |
| 22 | Industry for rubber and plastic products | 7,8 | 11,8 | 5,0 | 6,4 | 8,8 | 3,9 | 4,7 | 3,8 | 5,6 | 2,2 |
| 23 | Industry for other non-metallic mineral products | 5,8 | .. | .. | 0,0 | .. | .. | 0,3 | .. | .. | 1,9 |
| 24 | Industry for basic metals | 10,5 | 0,5 | 12,5 | 18,4 | 0,6 | 26,5 | -1,8 | -1,9 | -1,5 | 8,7 |
| 25 | Industry for manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment | 18,0 | 21,0 | 20,0 | -28,8 | 6,1 | -52,5 | -14,7 | 11,6 | -40,8 | 8,0 |
| 26 | Industry for manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products | 0,0 | 2,3 | 1,4 | 8,8 | -7,4 | 15,8 | 11,9 | -3,4 | 18,7 | 3,4 |
| 27 | Industry for manufacture of electrical equipment | 15,3 | 37,0 | 14,8 | 38,8 | 37,2 | 38,8 | .. | .. | .. | 5,7 |
| 28 | Industry for machinery and equipment n.e.c. | 18,4 | 5,9 | 33,4 | 8,2 | -1,0 | 11,5 | 13,1 | 4,7 | 16,4 | 10,2 |
| 29-30 | Industry for transport equipment | 25,3 | 20,1 | 23,1 | 34,2 | 9,2 | 41,7 | 1,7 | -9,9 | 5,8 | 15,6 |
| 29 | Industry for motor vehicles | 21,9 | .. | .. | 21,6 | .. | .. | 2,5 | .. | .. | 13,2 |
| 30 | Industry for other transport equipment | -4,2 | .. | .. | 164,9 | .. | .. | -5,1 | .. | .. | 2,4 |
| 31-33 | Industry for other manufacturing, repair and installation of machinery and equipment | 2,1 | 4,8 | 0,3 | 5,5 | 10,3 | -3,6 | 2,2 | 2,9 | 1,0 | 3,8 |
Definitions and explanations
Revisions
When the orders index and the turnover index for a new month are published, the indices for previous months are also revised. The material is normally revised for between two and four months retroactively, depending on which month of the quarter is the reference month. The whole previous quarter is revised when publishing the first and second months of a quarter. Calendar adjusted figures, seasonally adjusted figures and trend figures are revised from January 2000 onwards.
International comparisons
For international comparisons, please refer to Eurostat:
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/short-term-business-statistics/overview
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