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In March 2025, the total market production increased by 0.9% in the EU and by 1.2% in the euro area compared with the previous month.

The total market production index (TMPI) is a composite indicator that combines 4 short-term business statistics indicators covering most of the market economy, i.e. production in industry, construction, and services as well as the trade volume.

The increase of total market production in the EU in March was driven by growth in industrial production (+1.9%) and services (+0.6%). Production in construction and trade volume increased both by 0.2%.

Compared with the same month of the previous year, total market production increased by 2.4% in the EU and 2.5% in the euro area.

This information comes from data on market production published by Eurostat today.

Total market production in the EU and euro area, January 2018- March 2025 (seasonally adjusted data, 2021=100). Line chart. Link to full dataset below.

Source dataset: sts_tot_prod_m

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Methodological notes

  • The TMPI covers industry, construction, trade and services, i.e. it combines all areas currently covered by short-term statistics indicators under the European Business Statistics Regulation. In terms of NACE Rev. 2 (statistical classification of economic activities) the coverage of the TMPI includes:
    • Industry: NACE sections B (mining and quarrying), C (manufacturing), D (electricity, gas, steam);
    • Construction: NACE section F;
    • Trade: NACE section G, i.e. trade and repair of motor vehicles (G45), wholesale trade (G46) and retail trade (G47);
    • Services: divisions H (transport), I (accommodation and food services), J (information and communication), L (real estate activities), M (professional and technical services), N (business support services).
  • The evolution of the TMPI and quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) is quite similar, although there are also differences that become more pronounced with increasing distance from the base year. Apart from the limited coverage of the TMPI, there are several other methodological reasons for the differences, those are also explained in the related Statistics Explained article.

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