Orders in industry increased in March in Sweden
Total orders in industry increased by 5.2 percent in March 2025 compared with February, in seasonally adjusted figures. Compared with March 2024, total orders in industry increased by 10.7 percent in calendar-adjusted figures.
The developments on a monthly basis varied among the industrial subsectors. Total orders in industry increased both on the export market and on the domestic market compared with February. Export market increased by 9.6 percent and domestic market increased by 0.4 percent, in seasonally adjusted figures.
Total orders in industry increased on an annual basis
On an annual basis, total orders in industry increased by 10.7 percent compared with March 2024, in calendar-adjusted figures. Orders received from customers in Sweden decreased by 3.0 percent while orders received from customers abroad increased by 19.7 percent.
So far this year, total orders in industry have been 10.0 percent higher than the corresponding period, January to March 2024, in calendar-adjusted figures. The export market increased by 18.7 percent and the domestic market decreased by 3.1 percent.
Total orders in industry in February revised
The figures for March are preliminary. Since the previous publication, the seasonally adjusted monthly development in February compared with January has been revised downwards by 0.3 percentage points to -6.5 percent. The calendar-adjusted development in February compared with February of the previous year has been revised downwards by 0.1 percentage points to 2.4 percent.
Remarks
From April 2024, data on order calculated from declared VAT data to the Swedish Tax Agency is used for small and medium-sized enterprises in industrial industries (SNI 07–33). The change is introduced with the ambition to increase quality and streamline the production of functional statistics that describe individual activities in the economy, such as orders in industry. When the new method is introduced, the statistics on orders in industry will be revised as far back in time as possible. In the Statistical Database, values for the periods April 2018 to March 2024 have been revised.
When the reference month January 2024 was published, the base year was changed to 2021. This means that the average of the monthly indices in 2021 is 100 (index 2021=100).
For a more comprehensive understanding of the statistics, it is relevant to analyse the effects of seasonal and calendar adjustments on the statistics. Please note that data series are seasonally adjusted individually. This means that a seasonally adjusted figure for an aggregate may differ from a weighted mean of the corresponding figures for included sectors.
Source: Statistics Sweden
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