According to the report from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in June 2021, production in industry was down by 1.3% on the previous month on a price, seasonally and calendar adjusted basis. Economists had expected a 0.5% increase. Compared with June 2020, the increase in calendar adjusted production in industry amounted to 5.1%. Compared with February 2020, the month before restrictions were imposed due to the corona pandemic in Germany, production in June 2021 was 6.8% lower in seasonally and calendar adjusted terms.

In June 2021, production in industry excluding energy and construction was down by 0.9%. Within industry, the production of capital goods showed a decrease of 2.9% and the production of intermediate goods of 0.9%. The production of consumer goods increased by 3.4%. Outside industry, energy production was down by 0.6% in June 2021 and the production in construction decreased by 2.6%.

In May 2021, the corrected figure on the production in industry showed a decrease of 0.8% (provisional: -0.3%) from April 2021.