To main content

Industrial capacity utilisation, fourth quarter 2022

Largely unchanged capacity utilisation in industry

Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2023-02-21 8.00

Capacity utilisation in industry decreased by 0.1 percentage points in the fourth quarter of 2022 compared with the third quarter of 2022 in seasonally adjusted figures.

The decrease in capacity utilisation in industry in the third quarter led to a decrease in the level of utilisation, which amounted to 90.1 percent in seasonally adjusted figures.

On an annual basis, capacity utilisation decreased by 0.2 percentage points compared with the fourth quarter of 2021 and was 89.9 percent in calendar adjusted figures.

The figures for the fourth quarter of 2022 are preliminary. Since the previous publication capacity utilisation in the third quarter of 2022 compared with the second quarter of 2022 has been revised downwards by 0.1 percentage points, to a utilisation rate of 90.2 percent in seasonally adjusted figures.

Capacity utilisation in the third quarter of 2022 compared with the corresponding quarter a year ago is unrevised.

Capacity utilisation in industry, seasonally adjusted figures
Namnlös

Capacity utilisation in industry, percent
NACE 2007 INDUSTRY TITLE Seasonally adjusted figures
    2021 2022 Q4 2022-Q3 2022[1] Q4 2022-Q4 2021[2]
    Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4    
B+C Mines and quarries and manufacturing industry 90.4 90.6 91.2 90.2 90.1 ‑0.1 ‑0.2
- Intermediate goods industry 92.5 92.2 93.0 92.6 91.1 ‑1.5 ‑1.4
- Capital goods industry 89.2 90.0 90.9 90.3 91.2 0.9 2.1
- Non-durable consumer goods industry 89.4 89.0 89.2 87.6 88.9 1.3 ‑0.4
- Durable consumer goods industry 95.8 96.1 90.3 89.8 88.2 ‑1.6 ‑7.5
B Mines and quarries 93.6 91.8 93.6 93.6 93.7 0.1 0.1
C Manufacturing industry 90.3 90.6 91.1 90.1 89.9 ‑0.2 ‑0.3
20-21 Industry for chemicals and pharmaceutical products 86.4 86.4 86.5 85.7 84.0 ‑1.7 ‑2.4
24 Industry for basic metals 95.5 94.6 93.8 93.7 91.2 ‑2.5 ‑4.6
26 Industry for manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products 91.8 90.9 89.5 91.0 91.9 0.9 0.4
28 Industry for machinery and equipment n.e.c. 91.1 91.7 90.5 91.3 93.3 2 2.2
29 Industry for motor vehicles 83.4 83.9 91.0 88.0 86.4 ‑1.6 2.9

1) Calendar and seasonally adjusted figures 2) Calendar adjusted figures

Other information

Outdated tables

"Capacity utilisation in total industry (B+C), percent, quarter 2013K4 - 2022K3" is no longer updated as of 2022-11-21. The same information is still updated in the table "Industrial capacity utilisation, actual utilisation by industrial classification SNI2007".

Revisions

When capacity utilisation for a new quarter is published, the percentages for the previous quarter are also revised. Normally, the figures for the previous quarter are revised mainly due to new and revised information.

Next publishing will be

2023-05-19 at 08:00.

Statistical Database

More information is available in the Statistical Database

Feel free to use the facts from this statistical news but remember to state Source: Statistics Sweden.

Statistical agency and producer

Statistics Sweden, Innovation, Business sector production and Research section

E-mail
pin@scb.se

Enquiries

Karl Sahlberg

Telephone
+46 10 479 41 56
E-mail
karl.sahlberg@scb.se