Balearic industry sales fall 3.4% as Spain gains

Industrial sales in the Balearic Islands fall 3.4% in August from a year earlier, while Spain as a whole records a 10.8% rise. The Spanish National Statistics Institute reports the figures on 16 October 2026. That puts the Balearic Islands 14.2 percentage points behind the national rate.

Only Aragón records a steeper fall, at 4%. La Rioja is down 3.3%. The biggest rises are in Navarra (23.7%), the Basque Country (22.2%) and Andalusia (21.2%).

The gap extends beyond August. Since the start of the year, industrial sales in the Balearic Islands have fallen 11.8%, while Spain as a whole is up 4.9% — a difference of 16.7 percentage points.

Topics: Economy

Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com