The producer price index (PPI) in March 2015 was 224.3 points (4. quarter 2005 = 100), 2.4% higher than in the previous month. The PPI for fish products was 275.4 points which is 1.6% higher than in February 2015 (effect on the index 0.5%) and the PPI for power intensive industry products was 237.3 points, 5.0% higher (1.7%). The PPI for food products decreased by 0.3% (-0.1%) and the PPI for other manufactured products increased by 1.5% (0.3%).
The PPI for domestically sold products was 0.2% higher than in the previous month while the index for exported products increased by 3.3% (2.4%).
Compared with March 2014 the PPI has increased by 15.9%. The PPI for fish products increased by 13.3% and the PPI for power intensive industry increased by 31.5%. The price of food products is unchanged in the same period.
| Monthly changes (%) | ||||||
| Power | ||||||
| intensive | ||||||
| Marine | industry | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | products | production | sales | products | |
| 2014 | ||||||
| March | -0.9 | 1.5 | -2.7 | 0.0 | -1.1 | -0.9 |
| April | 0.5 | 2.6 | -0.8 | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.5 |
| May | 1.7 | 0.5 | 7.3 | 0.0 | -1.9 | 2.9 |
| June | 1.0 | 1.4 | -2.2 | -0.1 | 2.6 | 0.4 |
| July | 0.8 | 1.3 | 4.4 | 0.1 | -2.3 | 1.9 |
| August | 3.5 | 2.4 | 7.7 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 4.6 |
| September | 1.7 | -1.8 | 4.8 | -0.4 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
| October | 1.2 | 2.0 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 1.3 |
| November | 0.6 | 1.5 | 0.2 | -0.3 | -0.2 | 0.8 |
| December | 3.3 | 2.1 | 6.5 | 0.2 | 0.9 | 4.2 |
| 2015 | ||||||
| January | 0.2 | 1.0 | -0.6 | -0.2 | -0.1 | 0.3 |
| February | -2.0 | -1.9 | -4.2 | -0.5 | 0.2 | -2.8 |
| March | 2.4 | 1.6 | 5.0 | -0.3 | 0.2 | 3.3 |
| Annual changes (%) | ||||||
| Power | ||||||
| intensive | ||||||
| Marine | industry | Food | Domestic | Exported | ||
| PPI | products | products | production | sales | products | |
| 2014 | ||||||
| March | -9.5 | -4.0 | -23.5 | 1.2 | 2.9 | -13.0 |
| April | -3.3 | 2.9 | -14.9 | 2.0 | 4.5 | -5.6 |
| May | -2.2 | 1.6 | -8.3 | 1.7 | 1.6 | -3.5 |
| June | -1.8 | 1.6 | -9.8 | 2.1 | 3.9 | -3.6 |
| July | -0.8 | 3.0 | -5.8 | 2.3 | 1.8 | -1.7 |
| August | 5.6 | 6.0 | 7.0 | 2.5 | 4.3 | 6.1 |
| September | 4.4 | 2.5 | 8.5 | 1.6 | 2.9 | 4.9 |
| October | 6.5 | 4.1 | 12.1 | 0.9 | 3.9 | 7.4 |
| November | 6.1 | 4.8 | 9.1 | 0.5 | 4.2 | 6.8 |
| December | 12.2 | 9.6 | 24.9 | 1.1 | 2.9 | 15.6 |
| 2015 | ||||||
| January | 14.2 | 14.0 | 24.8 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 18.3 |
| February | 12.1 | 13.2 | 22.0 | 0.4 | 1.2 | 16.0 |
| March | 15.9 | 13.3 | 31.5 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 20.9 |