Production Value Index, August 2025
Private sector production increased in August 2025
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2025-10-10 8.00
Private sector production increased by 0.9 percent in August 2025 compared with July 2025 in seasonally adjusted figures, and increased by 3.7 percent compared with August 2024 in calendar adjusted figures.
-Private sector production increased amongst a vast majority of the sectors in August 2025, says Thorsten Holzer, statistician at SCB.
Broad increase in the industrial sector and service sector
Production value in industry increased
Production in the industry sector increased by 5.1 percent in August compared with July, measured in seasonally adjusted figures. Compared with the corresponding month last year, production increased by 10.6 percent, measured in working day adjusted figures.
Production value in services nearly unchanged
Production in the services sector increased by 0.1 percent in August compared with July, measured in seasonally adjusted figures. Compared with August 2024, production increased by 3.0 percent, measured in working day adjusted figures.
Production value in construction increased
Production in the construction sector increased by 4.2 percent in August compared with July, measured in seasonally adjusted figures. Compared with August 2024, production decreased by 2.4 percent.
Development in sectors
Remarks
In addition to the industry, services and construction sectors, industries D (electricity, gas, steam and hot water plants) and E (waterworks; sewage plants; waste-disposal plants) also impact private sector production. The development for these industries can be seen in the tables on the product page. Please note that data series are seasonally and calender adjusted individually. This means that a seasonally or calender adjusted figure for an aggregate may differ from a weighted mean of the corresponding figures for included sectors.
Revisions
When the Production Value Index is published for a new month, the indices for the two previous months are also revised, if new information has been added. Administrative data from the Swedish Tax Agency is used quarterly to increase the number of companies that are examined. This means that definitive quarterly statistics are based on a calculation on all the companies in the population. Administrative data is used every quarter to improve the quality of the Production Value Index and reduce the response burden. Normally, the material is revised between two and four months backwards, depending on when in the quarter the reference month falls. In connection with the publication of the first and second months in a quarter, the entire previous quarter is revised. The series, corrected for calendar and seasonal effects and trend estimates, is always revised from January 2010 and forward. Information regarding major revisions will be published in the Statistical Database.
Definitions and explanations
The Production Value Index (PVI) describes developments in the private sector production of goods and services each month. Production value is a measure used to calculate the GDP that includes net turnover from industry and service production, and the trade margin (revenue from sales minus costs of retail goods).
The PVI has been produced since the reference month November 2017 and replaces the Business Production Index.