Stats: Industrial Output in Slovakia Down by 3.1 percent Last Year

Bratislava, 10 February (TASR) - Following two years of growth, industrial output in Slovakia decreased by 3.1 percent year-on-year (y-o-y) last year, the Statistics Office reported on Tuesday. This was the seventh fall in industrial output to be posted in the past 17 years, although the drop seen in 2025 was the smallest one. Of the 15 monitored branches of industry, eight posted output drops of between 1 percent in mining and 16 percent in the energy sector. The sector was spared a worse result by growth in seven industrial branches, ranging from 1 percent in other manufacturing up to to 15 percent in the production of oil products. The top three sectors to negatively influence the overall result of the sector were supplies of electricity and gas (down 16 percent), the production of metals (almost 6 percent) and the production of machinery and equipment (12 percent). Conversely, industry was at least partially supported in 2025 by carmakers, which have long occupied the most significant position in the structure of Slovakia's industry. The production of transport equipment rose by 1.5 percent in total in 2025. Car production had a positive impact throughout the year, despite recording y-o-y output increases in only six of the 12 months of the year, primarily in the first four months of 2025. In fifth place in terms of its impact on overall industrial output was once again a sector with a negative contribution — the production of electric appliances, going down by 6 percent. Even a 15-percent increase in the production of coke and refined oil products, which had the sixth biggest impact, wasn't high enough to prevent a decline in industrial output last year. ko/df