Charts of the Week
At least once a week, we present interesting and relevant data released by domestic institutions (Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Bank of Slovenia, etc.). On the basis of data by international institutions (for example, Eurostat, the European Central Bank and Euribor.org), we also prepare an overview of key macroeconomic indicators for the euro area.
Current economic trends from 22 to 26 March 2021: fiscal verification of invoices, electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, registered unemployment and other charts
With the relaxation of containment measures, confidence in trade continued to improve in March; in services it was unchanged after rising in the previous two months. Data on fiscally verified invoices point to high year-on-year turnover growth in the…
Current economic trends from 15 to 19 March 2021: electricity consumption, electricity consumption by consumption group, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, labour market and other charts
The first wave of the epidemic, which started one year ago, had a significant impact on all economic activities. Since then businesses have partly adapted to the new situation. The containment measures during the second wave are focused mainly on…
Current economic trends from 8 to 12 March 2021: exports and imports of goods, manufacturing, electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles and other charts
The relatively favourable developments in the export part of the economy continued at the beginning of the year. Manufacturing output, which was close to pre-epidemic levels year on year at the end of 2020, rose in January. Exports of goods to EU…
Current economic trends from 1 to 5 March 2021: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles and registered unemployment
The indicators of current economic activity available for the end of February and the beginning of March remain relatively favourable. Electricity consumption, which was similar to last year’s for the most of February, was otherwise somewhat lower…
Current economic trends from 22 to 26 February 2021: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, registered unemployment, fiscal verification of invoices and other charts
The decline in GDP in the last quarter of 2020 (by 4.5% y-o-y) was smaller than expected. As a consequence of the adopted containment measures, particularly turnover in some service activities fell at the end of last year. Due to the closure of most…
Current economic trends from 15 to 19 February 2021: electricity consumption, electricity consumption by consumption group, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, labour market and other charts
Electricity consumption in the first half of February was similar year on year, while freight traffic on Slovenian motorways was still slightly lower than before the epidemic. The epidemic has a strong impact on the labour market – in 2020 employment…
Current economic trends from 9 to 12 February 2021: production volume in manufacturing, exports and imports of goods, electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, fiscal verification of invoices and registered unemployment
In the last quarter of last year, activity in the export-oriented part of the economy increased further, while manufacturing production and goods exports reached pre-crisis levels from the last quarter of 2019. At the end of last year, the recovery…
Current economic trends from 1 to 5 February 2021: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, registered unemployment and prices
As in the spring, the measures to contain the epidemic also had a strong impact on prices of some consumer goods in the second wave. In January, the year-on-year fall in prices was smaller, to the greatest extent due to the relatively modest seasonal…
Current Economic Trends from 25 to 29 January 2021: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, registered unemployment, fiscal verification of invoices and other charts
The second wave of the epidemic severely affected especially some service activities, with turnover in accommodation and food service activities falling particularly sharply because of the containment measures. Turnover in trade also fell further in…
Current economic trends from 18 to 22 January 2021: electricity consumption, traffic of electronically tolled vehicles, labour market and Slovenian industrial producer prices
In December, weaker economic activity as a result of the bad epidemiological picture was reflected in an even steeper price decline in the group of intermediate goods, which contributed significantly to slightly lower Slovenian industrial producer…