Inventory statistics, 1st quarter 2021
Business inventories increased in the first quarter of 2021
Statistical news from Statistics Sweden 2021-05-19 9.30
Swedish business inventories increased by SEK 11.5 billion in constant prices in the first quarter. This development corresponds to an increase of 2.2 percent in volume.
Total inventories in industry increased by SEK 1.5 billion in the first quarter, which corresponds to an increase of 0.6 percent in volume. Inventories in trade increased by SEK 10.0 billion in the first quarter, which corresponds to an increase of 3.7 percent in volume.
Industrial inventories increased
Inventories of finished goods and goods in progress increased by SEK 3.8 billion and inventories of input goods in total industry decreased by SEK 2.3 billion. This means that total inventories in industry increased by SEK 1.5 billion in the first quarter.
Since the previous publication, the development in total industrial inventories in the fourth quarter 2020 has been revised downwards by SEK 0.7 billion to a decrease of SEK 5.8 billion.
Trade inventories increased
Inventories in trade increased by SEK 10.0 billion in the first quarter. The largest increase was noted in wholesale trade, excluding motor vehicles and motorcycles, in which inventories increased by SEK 4.4 billion. Inventories in retail trade, excluding motor vehicles and motorcycles, increased by SEK 2.9 billion, and wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles increased by SEK 2.7 billion.
Total trade inventories in the fourth quarter 2020 have been revised upwards by SEK 0.6 billion to a decrease of SEK 7.0 billion.
New survey
The new survey Business inventories will replace the current surveys Inventories in trade and services and Industrial inventories in the next quarter. The results will be published on 17 August 2021 on Statistics Sweden’s website: www.scb.se/NV0123.
| NACE Rev 2 | INDUSTRY TITLE | Changes in total industrial inventories (2010 prices) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q1 2021 | Q1 2021/ Q4 2020 | Q4 2020 | Q1 2020 | |||
| Million SEK | % | Million SEK | Million SEK | |||
| B+C+G | Mines and quarries, manufacturing industry and wholesale and retail trade | 11 517.6 | 2.2 | ‑12 790.8 | 7 401.6 | |
| B+C | Mines and quarries and manufacturing industry | 1 516.3 | 0.6 | ‑5 775.5 | 5 458.7 | |
| - | Intermediate goods industry | ‑3 244.3 | ‑3.2 | ‑3 932.3 | 1 673.6 | |
| - | Energy excl. NACE section D | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| - | Capital goods industry | 5 059.6 | 5.8 | ‑3 340.9 | 4 475.8 | |
| - | Non-durable consumer goods industry | 2 076.4 | 4.9 | 840.9 | 1 312.3 | |
| - | Durable consumer goods industry | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| B | Mines and quarries | 734.1 | 21.3 | ‑696.3 | ‑254.3 | |
| C | Manufacturing industry | 782.2 | 0.3 | ‑5 079.2 | 5 713.0 | |
| 10-12 | Food product, beverage and tobacco industry | 475.0 | 3.0 | ‑489.8 | 956.2 | |
| 13-15 | Industry for textile and leather products | ‑57.1 | ‑2.8 | ‑104.0 | ‑30.1 | |
| 16 | Industry for wood and wood products | ‑256.9 | ‑2.3 | ‑282.6 | 159.4 | |
| 17 | Industry for pulp, paper and paper products | ‑295.2 | ‑2.3 | ‑638.3 | ‑157.8 | |
| 18 | Industry for printing and reproduction of recorded media | 35.9 | 4.2 | ‑38.5 | ‑32.5 | |
| 19 | Industry for coke and refined petroleum products | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| 20 | Industry for chemicals | ‑390.7 | ‑3.5 | ‑182.5 | 145.3 | |
| 21 | Industry for basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| 22 | Industry for rubber and plastic products | 38.1 | 0.6 | ‑136.1 | 355.8 | |
| 23 | Industry for other non-metallic mineral products | ‑545.0 | ‑8.1 | ‑95.4 | 304.4 | |
| 24 | Industry for basic metals | ‑2 398.0 | ‑9.0 | ‑675.3 | 269.6 | |
| 25 | Industry for manufacture of fabricated metal products, except machinery and equipment | 676.1 | 3.3 | ‑1 340.1 | 952.2 | |
| 26 | Industry for computer, electronic and optical products | 296.4 | 3.4 | ‑90.6 | 400.0 | |
| 27 | Industry for manufacture of electrical equipment | 72.3 | 0.9 | ‑862.5 | 185.2 | |
| 28 | Industry for machinery and equipment n.e.c. | 671.9 | 1.8 | 54.0 | 1 778.9 | |
| 29 | Industry for motor vehicles | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| 30 | Industry for other transport equipment | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| 31-33 | Industry for other manufacturing, repair and installation of machinery and equipment | 389.5 | 4.1 | ‑468.5 | 492.6 | |
| G | Wholesale and retail trade | 10 001.3 | 3.7 | ‑7 015.3 | 1 942.9 | |
| 45 | Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 2 687.7 | 4.7 | 1 614.3 | 1 777.9 | |
| 46 | Wholesale trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 4 437.2 | 3.5 | ‑6 832.2 | ‑1 144.0 | |
| 47 | Retail trade, except of motor vehicles and motorcycles | 2 876.5 | 3.5 | ‑1 797.4 | 1 308.9 | |
When .. presents, this indicates that the value is zero or confidential.
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Next publishing will be
2021-08-17
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