Industrial production in Malta increased by 7.3% year-on-year in April 2026, rebounding from a revised 3.8% decline in March and registering the strongest expansion since March 2025. The recovery was primarily driven by a sharp rise in manufacturing output, which grew by 8.1% after a 5.0% contraction in the previous month. Within manufacturing, the largest gains were recorded in wood, paper products and printing (62.9%), followed by computer, electronic and optical products and motor vehicles (34.9%), and food products and beverages (13.0%).
Among the main industrial groupings, output accelerated for intermediate goods (11.0% vs 0.4%) and consumer durable goods (4.3% vs 0.1%). Meanwhile, both overall consumer goods (7.6% vs -6.9%) and consumer non-durable goods (7.9% vs -7.4%) swung back to growth. By contrast, energy production contracted (-9.2% vs 18.0%), and output of capital goods declined further (-2.1% vs -0.3%). On a seasonally adjusted month-on-month basis, industrial production rose by 5.2% in April.
