France output current prices: wood, paper and printing
France output current prices: wood, paper and printing stood at 36,889 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Output, current prices | |||||||||||
| Manufacture of wood; manufacture of pulp, paper and paperboard; printing | 36,889 | 37,814 | 39,336 | 42,771 | 36,226 | 31,481 | 34,855 | 35,191 | 34,320 | 33,848 | |
| Chemical industry | 64,994 | 68,053 | 69,129 | 74,477 | 62,306 | 52,425 | 57,419 | 57,272 | 56,521 | 53,865 |
Understanding france output current prices: wood, paper and printing
Forestry processing, cellulose refinement, paper sheet production, and ink-on-paper replication activities generate the monetary transactions captured here within the annual national accounts. Total output sums market sales, goods produced for own final use, and inventory variations across timber transformation plants, paper mills, and publishing print shops, priced in the actual monetary units of each operating period without deflation adjustments. Sibling industry rows isolate distinct manufacturing classifications, ensuring that forestry cultivation or downstream publishing offices remain separate from the physical conversion of wood into paper or finished print products.
Interpreting annual movements requires accounting for timber price fluctuations, input cost shifts in pulp markets, and structural shifts in print media demand over long horizons. Because these figures are unadjusted for price changes, comparisons across adjacent years blend volume shifts with underlying material cost inflation. Analysts should examine chained volume measures from the same national accounts system to separate physical production changes from nominal price swings. Revisions often occur when annual tax returns and structural enterprise surveys replace preliminary production estimates.
Frequently asked questions
- What exact industrial activities are grouped within this branch?
- The classification aggregates forestry conversion, wood product fabrication, pulp and paper manufacturing, and commercial printing operations into a single monetary aggregate.
- Does this series account for price inflation in timber or paper?
- No, because values are stated in current prices, reflecting the exact exchange rates and cost conditions of each operating year rather than constant purchasing power.
- Why might figures for this branch be revised after initial publication?
- Preliminary estimates are updated once comprehensive corporate tax returns, annual industrial surveys, and detailed administrative declarations become fully processed.