France intermediate consumption current prices: chemical industry
France intermediate consumption current prices: chemical industry stood at 43,590 EUR million in 2025, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Annual national accounts table (Value · Annual), with a complete series running from 1959 to 2025. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Annual national accounts table
| Indicator | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intermediate consumption, current prices | |||||||||||
| Chemical industry | 43,590 | 45,496 | 46,672 | 56,824 | 46,652 | 36,612 | 39,747 | 40,487 | 39,243 | 37,907 | |
| Pharmaceuticals, medical chemical and botanical products | 18,720 | 18,030 | 16,962 | 14,425 | 12,274 | 11,855 | 10,628 | 9,814 | 9,660 | 8,899 |
Understanding france intermediate consumption current prices: chemical industry
Petrochemical feedstocks, industrial gases, inorganic acids, organic solvents, and bulk compounds utilized in synthesis operations constitute the total monetary inputs tracked for this specific manufacturing sector. It isolates heavy chemical processing materials while excluding specialized medicinal preparations, biological botanicals, and downstream pharmaceutical formulations accounted for in separate sectoral accounts.
Interpreting these figures requires accounting for volatile commodity price swings in global energy markets that directly alter petrochemical input costs independently of physical production volumes. Source data updates regularly incorporate corrected enterprise tax returns and expanded industrial survey responses, which frequently adjust early provisional estimates for large manufacturing firms. Analysts rely primarily on annual comparisons to assess structural shifts in industrial demand, avoiding distortions from routine maintenance shutdowns. Analysts comparing this series with manufacturing output must account for double counting of materials transferred between allied chemical processing branches.
FAQ:
Frequently asked questions
- Are retail cleaning products included in these input costs?
- Bulk cleaning agents used commercially are included, but finished consumer goods packaged for retail sale are excluded from intermediate consumption.
- Do these figures reflect imported chemical inputs?
- Yes, intermediate consumption aggregates both domestically sourced materials and imported components utilized by domestic industrial establishments.
- Why might this series change independently of output values?
- Fluctuations in international raw material prices can alter input expenditures even when the physical volume of manufactured products remains constant.