Producer prices in Slovenia increased 1.2 percent year-on-year in February of 2019, following a 1.1 percent rise in January. Prices advanced faster for electricity, gas, steam & air conditioning supply (10.1 percent from 5.6 percent in January) while cost rebounded for water supply (0.4 percent from -0.6 percent). Meanwhile, prices went up at a softer pace for manufacturing (0.8 percent from 0.9 percent) and for mining & quarrying (1.7 percent from 2.0 percent).On a monthly basis, producer prices went up 0.3 percent, the same pace as in January. Producer Prices Change in Slovenia averaged 1.94 percent from 2001 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 8.86 percent in January of 2001 and a record low of -3.27 percent in August of 2009.
Producer Prices Change in Slovenia is expected to be 0.70 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Producer Prices Change in Slovenia to stand at 1.30 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Slovenia Producer Prices Change is projected to trend around 1.90 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.