According to provisional data of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), in April 2019, production in industry was down by 1.9% on the previous month on a price, seasonally and calendar adjusted basis. Economists had expected a 0.3% decrease.

In March 2019, the corrected figure shows an increase of 0.5% from February 2019, thus confirming the provisional result published in the previous month.

In April 2019, production in industry excluding energy and construction was down by 2.5%. Within industry, the production of intermediate goods decreased by 2.1% and the production of consumer goods by 0.8%. The production of capital goods showed a decrease by 3.3%. Outside industry, energy production was down by 1.1% in April 2019 and the production in construction increased by 0.2%.