PRODUCTION AND SALE OF INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS (PRODCOM), 2025 – Provisional Data, September 2026

In 2025, the total value of industrial products sold by enterprises engaged in the production of industrial products in the Republic of Croatia (irrespective of where those enterprises were registered) amounted to 27 527 million euro. As compared to the previous year, the value of industrial products sold increased by 1 362 million euro, or by 5.2%. The value of the sale to external markets amounted to 11 531 million euro, which accounted for 41.9% of the total value of industrial products sold.

According to the NKD 2025 industrial sections, the value of industrial products sold, according to the product activity, was the highest in section C Manufacturing, 21 373 million euro, D Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, 5 355 million euro, and B Mining and quarrying, 545 million euro, while in section E Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities it was the lowest, 254 million euro. The value of industrial products sold was the highest in division 35 Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (5 355 million euro) and the lowest in division 38 Waste collection, recovery and disposal activities (1 million euro).

The share of the value of industrial products sold on producers’ own account by product activities in 2025 in the Republic of Croatia was still the highest and amounted to 98.4% of the total value of industrial products sold, while the share of the value of industrial products sold under contract with the principal (for third parties) amounted to 1.6%. The highest share of industrial products sold under contract was recorded in divisions 15 (18.7%), 28 (16.9%), 24 (10.5%) and 25 (9.9%), and in section C Manufacturing.

The comparison of industrial products sold in 21 counties of the Republic of Croatia (see Table 2 and Graph G-6) shows that the highest share in the value of industrial products sold according to the product activity was recorded in the City of Zagreb, 5 035 million euro (23.0%), and in the County of Primorje-Gorski Kotar, 2 873 million euro (13.1%). The lowest value of industrial products sold was recorded in the County of Dubrovnik-Neretva, 57 million euro (0.3%).

Data on the value of industrial products sold were obtained by the processing of the PRODCOM Survey on Industrial Production in 2025, which covered industrial local units belonging to legal entities and tradesmen employing 10 and more persons. The structure of the coverage of legal entities and tradesmen by product activities in 2025, according to the NKD 2025 activity sections, was the following: 2.0% of them were covered by section B, 77.6% by section C, 19.5% by section D, and 0.9% by section E.

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

This First Release contains the provisional data of the PRODCOM Survey on Industrial Production (IND-21/PRODCOM form) in 2025. It was carried out by the Croatian Bureau of Statistics on the basis of the Official Statistics Act (NN, Nos 25/20, 155/23, 124/25 – corr. and 69/26) and the Statistical Standards for the PRODCOM Survey on Industrial Production in 2025, an integral part of which is also the Nomenclature of Industrial Products − NIP 2025. The term "industry" used in this First Release is defined by products (and services) within the NKD 2025 sections B, C, D and E. This definition of industry is wider than the definition used in the PRODCOM Survey.

PRODCOM indicators of industrial production

The provisional data refer to the most recent data related to industrial production statistics, which are derived from the annual results of the PRODCOM Survey on Industrial Production. The PRODCOM results provide detailed information about a national market and its competitiveness on international markets at the individual product/commodity level, because they are linked with foreign trade data via CT in the same way as the PRODCOM results with which they are harmonised. All data at the individual product level are collected on the basis of the Nomenclature of Industrial Products – NIP 2025, which was derived from the PRODCOM List 2025, which is an integral part of the harmonised Statistical Standards for the PRODCOM Survey in the Republic of Croatia. Table 1 presents aggregate results of the breakdown according to product activities, followed by graphs containing data on the value of industrial products sold and export, expressed in thousands of euro and broken down according to the NKD 2025 sections and divisions. Table 2 presents aggregate results for counties, broken down by product activities according to the NIP 2025. Finally, Table 3 shows industrial products sold in volume and value terms of the ten most important selected individual products in the Republic of Croatia according to the PRODCOM List 2025 (aggregates of the NIP 2025 products) for the most recent available year, combined with data on imports and exports (external trade data derived from CT 2025) and calculated values of apparent domestic consumption for each selected product/commodity by adding imports to production and deducting exports. The 10 products were selected on the basis of their share in the total value of industrial products sold and export in the Republic of Croatia according to the results of the PRODCOM Survey on Industrial Production in 2025.

PRODCOM coverage and units. Reporting units in the PRODCOM Survey on Industrial Production are all trade companies and other legal entities and tradesmen and parts thereof employing ten and more persons that were engaged in industrial production and/or services (production on own account or on contract basis) in a reference annual period, as defined in the NKD 2025 sections B, C, D and E. Target statistical units are industrial enterprises and local units of industrial and non-industrial enterprises that produce products defined by the NIP (in line with the PRODCOM List).

Statistical units or parts thereof that are physically situated outside of the territory of the Republic of Croatia are not covered. In the profiling of statistical units – local units, the county principle is taken into account. In cases where an observation unit is engaged in industrial production on the territory of several different counties, e.g. in five counties, it is further divided into five local units. In order to stay in line with the EU PRODCOM regulations, the production intended for further processing in the same or in other legal units of the same enterprise is not considered its output. The coverage of reporting and statistical units is defined in the Address Book of Industrial Statistical Units, which was established and updated each year by the Industry and Energy Statistics Department.

Data sources used in the annual updating of the Address Book are those of the Statistical Business Register, of other business statistics surveys on industry as well as other available information and data sources. A special criterion for the coverage of statistical units in the PRODCOM survey is that, for each individual industrial class (05.10 to 38.32) of the NKD 2025, there must be a sufficient coverage of statistical units so that they jointly account for at least 90% of the gross value added of the corresponding NKD 2025 class. If this condition is not met, for certain industry classes of the NKD 2025, the coverage is extended to statistical units employing less than ten persons, e.g. small industries such as bakery industry, printing and the like.

The PRODCOM Survey for 2025 covered 2 615 enterprises (legal entities and tradesmen) with a response rate of 98.62%, while the non-response estimate was 1.38%.

PRODCOM concepts and definitions

Concepts and definitions used in the PRODCOM Survey of the Republic of Croatia are harmonised with those used in the PRODCOM Survey carried out within the EU. They provide further explanations used in the presentation of PRODCOM results, though it should be taken into account that in other contexts these concepts and definitions may have different meanings. They are intended only for the correct interpretation of the PRODCOM results and are harmonised with the concepts and definitions of the PRODCOM EU Survey.

PRODCOM product is an outcome of a certain industrial activity. It is a generic term applied to products that have a physical dimension as well as for industrial services. According to the concept of the PRODCOM Survey, it is defined by the headings of the Nomenclature of Industrial Products – NIP, which is a national version of the EU PRODCOM List. A finished product is any product that has reached a certain stage of treatment or further processing in the production process, so that it is listed under a separate NIP code and heading. This term also covers all stages of finishing the product, such as cleaning, packing, quality testing, sorting and the like.

Industrial services. This term covers treatment, repairs and maintenance services as well as assembly work. Industrial services are normally recorded for each service listed in the NIP and their value is expressed in thousands of euro, mainly as a provision for the rendered service. Only separately invoiced services are recorded. There are special rules for presenting data on each industrial service in the previously mentioned PRODCOM Statistical Standards. On the other hand, some industrial services are classified according to the NKD 2025 as non-industrial services, e.g. Repair and maintenance of motor vehicles (section T, class 95.31), Repair and maintenance of computers, personal and household goods, and motor vehicles and motorcycles (section T, division 95), Publishing activities (section J, division 58), Motion picture, video and television programme production, sound recording and music publishing activities (section J, division 59), Computer programming, consultancy and related activities (section K, division 62) and Computing infrastructure, data processing, hosting and other information service activities (section K, division 63) and, therefore, they were not a subject of the 2025 IND-21/PRODCOM Survey.

NIP 2025 is the hierarchically structured Nomenclature of Industrial Products (and services), created for measuring the annual industrial production in volume and value terms. It is a more detailed national version of the PRODCOM List. It covers all products and services resulting from performing activities of the NKD 2025 sections B, C, D and E. The NIP structure corresponds at all levels to that of the NKD 2025, KPD 2025 as well as of the PRODCOM List 2025, with a further detailed national breakdown.

The NIP 2025 is linked with the Customs Tariff (CT) of the Republic of Croatia in the same way as the PRODCOM List is linked with the EU Combined Nomenclature (CN). It is regularly updated at the beginning of each year according to the updates to the EU PRODCOM List.

PRODCOM is an acronym that stands for the production statistics of the European Union of industrial production that are defined by the Regulation (EU) 2019/2152. The acronym was derived from the French title "PRODuction COMmunautaire" (Community Production). The PRODCOM Survey is designed to provide for information on national, EU and international markets. It monitors industrial products defined by the PRODCOM List, which is updated every year. In order to reflect the international dimension of these markets, there is a link between production statistics and foreign trade statistics established in such a way that the EU PRODCOM List was harmonised with the EU Combined Nomenclature (CN) for the reference year in question, so that production statistics data can be comparable with foreign trade data on the detailed product/commodity level. It enabled the calculation of apparent consumption.

PRODCOM List is a list of products, goods and services listed under the PRODCOM headings. The PRODCOM List for 2025¹⁾ includes 4 200 compulsory codes and headings that are mainly used in the compilation of detailed product statistics of the EU. The PRODCOM List for 2025¹⁾ is based on the CPA version 2.2²⁾ (to which KPD 2025³⁾ corresponds in structure) and is linked with the Combined Nomenclature for 2025 (CN 2025) of the EU via reference notes. It is not structured as a hierarchical classification and that is why it is a "list", although products are divided into "divisions" that correspond to the divisions of the NACE Rev. 2.1 and cover almost all products and services of the NACE sections B and C. In principle, the PRODCOM headings consist of items or groups of items taken over from the CN in order to allow the comparability of foreign trade and production data and, therefore, they have to be updated at the beginning of each year according to changes in the Combined Nomenclature (CN).

Industrial products sold in PRODCOM. The term "industrial products sold" refers to the production done by statistical units over a period of time that was sold (invoiced) in the reference year. The physical volume and value of industrial products sold are normally recorded for products listed in the NIP if they were sold to other entities on the domestic market, in own shops or exported to international markets. This also includes own-produced products hired out or leased to third parties (e.g. computer equipment, telephone installations, washing machines). Industrial products sold also include finished products (or services) that a statistical unit produced on own account as well as those produced or further processed on a fee or a contract basis for a principal (contract processing) if such production took place on the territory of the Republic of Croatia. It does not include finished products used, or to be used, in further processing in local units of the same enterprise or finished products put on stock to be sold later.

The value of PRODCOM industrial products sold is calculated on the basis of the selling price a producer obtained/will obtain during the reporting period (invoiced values). The value of production includes packaging costs even if they are charged separately, but the following costs are excluded: any turnover tax and consumer tax charged (VAT and excises), separately charged freight costs and any discounts granted to customers. If finished products are hired out or leased to third parties, then prices obtainable on the market for the product in question are defined as estimated values.

Contract processing (contract work). In the PRODCOM sense, the production on a fee or contract basis exists if a statistical unit (contractor) produces or processes particular NIP products ordered by a principal who also supplies, free of charge, the material necessary for that production or processing. The production on a fee or a contract basis is the production carried out under special arrangements between an ordering unit (principal) and a producing unit (contractor). In such a production, only the contractor must report the value of the actual production of industrial products according to the contract, that is, in the country where the production actually took place, in order to avoid double presentation of data. In these cases, the contractor reports the production under the same codes of NIP products as for the production on own account, while, concerning the industrial products sold, he presents only the value of the fee actually paid by a principal for a service of production. In any arrangement for the production or processing on the contract basis, the principal and the producer must belong to different enterprises (business entities), for, according to the definitions of the PRODCOM Statistical Standards, the production or processing on a contract basis between local units belonging to the same enterprise is not possible.

Apparent domestic consumption is a derived indicator calculated by balancing data on industrial products sold in volumes and values for 10 most important NIP 2025 individual products with comparable exports/imports volume and value data for the same products/commodities or their aggregates at the PRODCOM List 2025 level (originally foreign trade data aggregated at the Combined Nomenclature 2025 levels using Customs Tariff 2025). The following formula was used in the calculation: Production + Imports – Exports. The importance criterion of the NIP 2025 products for the Republic of Croatia has been defined according to the value of industrial products sold and export. Data are presented in physical measurement units (volume) and in thousands of euro (value).

_{1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/665 of 4 March 2026 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2552 as regards the technical specifications of data requirements for the detailed topic industrial production statistics establishing the industrial products classification breakdown.
2) Classification of products by activity of the Republic of Croatia 2025 – KPD 2025 (NN, No. 151/24). KPD 2025 is identical on all hierarchical levels with CPA version 2.2 of the EU.
3) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/3103 of 2 September 2024 amending Regulation (EC) No 451/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards updating the classification of products by activity (CPA).}

Note. Detailed tables of the PRODCOM results for 2025 will be available in the PC-Axis databases entitled ''Industrial Production in 2025 – PRODCOM Annual Results'', which is planned to be issued by the end of March 2027.

The survey whose data are published in this First Realese has been conducted with the financial assistance of the European Union. The contents of this document are the soleresponsibility of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union.

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