From July 2025 through May 2026, the index remained within a narrow range of 98.2 to 101.0. June moved well outside that band. Intermediate goods are materials, components and other inputs that businesses use to make finished products, so this is an upstream measure of factory activity rather than a tally of goods sold to consumers.
The category did not move alone. Manufacturing production increased 5.6% from May, from an index reading of 101.7 to 107.4, while total industrial production excluding construction rose 5.2%, from 99.2 to 104.4. That broader improvement makes June look less like noise confined to one industrial classification, but the data do not show what caused the unusually large move in intermediate goods.
Croatia ranked second among the seven countries in the June comparison, against a peer average of 105.27. These index levels compare each country with its own 2021 production benchmark; they do not mean Croatia has the second-largest industrial sector.
The figure matters because input production sits near the start of the manufacturing chain. A sustained increase can precede more finished output and exports, while a single month can also reflect inventory rebuilding or the timing of large orders. Manufactured products accounted for 63.1% of Croatia’s merchandise exports in 2024, according to the manufactures export share. For now, the short data history and one-month nature of the break make persistence more important than the record label.