Industry turnover in August increased by 8.8 percent compared to the same month in 2025, said the Macedonian State Statistics Office (SSO) on Friday.
By main industrial grouping, turnover growth was observed in intermediate goods (excluding energy) by 1.4 percent, capital goods by 17.1 percent, and non-durable consumer goods by 6.9 percent.
Conversely, a decrease in turnover of 4.2 percent was recorded for durable consumer goods.
Compared to July 2026, industrial turnover in August fell by 16.3 percent. In the period from January to August 2026, turnover increased by 3 percent compared to the same period last year.
Domestic market industrial turnover in August 2026 increased by 4.4 percent compared to August 2025, while it recorded a growth of 3.9 percent over the first eight months of the year.
In foreign markets, turnover in August increased by 11.2 percent year-on-year, while growth for the January–August 2026 period stood at 3.1 percent. The largest impact on the increase in total industrial turnover in August 2026, compared to August 2025, came from the manufacture of food products (2.7%), the manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers (17.4%), and the manufacture of machinery and equipment not elsewhere classified (17.3%).