High Technology Indicators Focus by products Value and distribution of high-technology products by product type. Units: Specified in each indicator Value of HT production (thousands of euros) Distribution of HT production (%) Distribution of HT production in comparison with total industrial production (%) Annual variation rate (%) 1. Aeronautical and space construction 755,826 6.7 0.2 -2.4 1.1 Aircraft engines 406,074 3.6 0.1 .. 1.2 Helicopters .. .. .. .. 1.3 Airplanes .. .. .. .. 1.4 Space craft . . . . 1.5 Propellers, rotors and their parts . . . . 1.6 Undercarriages and their parts .. .. .. .. 1.7 Compasses, other air navigation instruments and devices 299,558 2.6 0.1 4.5 2. Office machinery and IT hardware 186,251 1.6 0.0 47.7 2.1 Automatic typewriters and word processing machines .. .. .. .. 2.2 Photocopiers .. .. .. .. 2.3 Computers 157,980 1.4 0.0 42.5 2.4 Computer parts and accessories 16,251 0.1 0.0 .. 3. Electronic material, radio equipment and radio, television and communications sets 2,327,863 20.5 0.5 15.6 3.1 Recording and sound playback equipment .. .. .. .. 3.2 Video equipment . . . . 3.3 Telecommunication equipment 642,246 5.7 0.1 13.8 3.4 Printed circuits 368,441 3.2 0.1 13.0 3.5 Panels and other items with electrical devices for a voltage < 1,000 V 450,883 4.0 0.1 12.5 3.6 Fibre optic cables 79,255 0.7 0.0 -8.4 3.7 and 3.8 Microwave tubes: other valves and tubes . . . . 3.9 Semiconductors 63,030 0.6 0.0 30.7 3.10 Integrated electronic circuits 372,572 3.3 0.1 54.7 3.11 Piezoelectric crystals 15,590 0.1 0.0 2.5 3.12 Optical media . . . . 3.13 Other media .. .. .. .. 4. Pharmaceutical products 3,125,666 27.5 0.6 12.7 4.1 Antibiotics 265,612 2.3 0.1 -9.2 4.2 Hormones and their derivatives 122,238 1.1 0.0 -8.2 4.3 Glycosides, glands, drips, vaccines 2,034,603 17.9 0.4 18.5 4.4 Medicines that contain penicillins or other antibiotics 420,669 3.7 0.1 3.9 4.5 Medicines that contain hormones, but not antibiotics 282,544 2.5 0.1 25.3 5. Scientific instruments 1,209,830 10.6 0.2 21.3 5.1 Electrodiagnostic devices for medicine, surgery and radiology 152,139 1.3 0.0 6.8 5.2 Optical instruments and devices 13,756 0.1 0.0 -37.4 5.3 Dental drills .. .. .. .. 5.4 Measuring instruments and devices 702,845 6.2 0.1 19.3 5.5 Photographic equipment .. .. .. .. 5.6 Film cameras . . . . 5.7 Contact lenses 17,512 0.2 0.0 -3.3 5.8 Other optical fibres .. .. .. .. 5.9 Orthopaedic equipment 213,504 1.9 0.0 62.9 6. Electric machinery and material 433,359 3.8 0.1 8.4 6.1 Fixed electric condensers .. .. .. .. 6.2 Standalone electric machines and devices .. .. .. .. 6.3 Electric acoustic or visual signalling devices .. .. .. .. 7. Chemical products 2,186,892 19.2 0.5 9.4 7.1 Selenium, tellurium, phosphorus, arsenium and boron .. .. .. .. 7.2 Silicon .. .. .. .. 7.3 Calcium, strontium and barium . . . . 7.4 Other inorganic chemical products .. .. .. .. 7.5 Radioactive materials . . . . 7.6 Synthetic organic colouring materials and colouring lacquers 213,251 1.9 0.0 33.8 7.7 Polyethylene terephthalate 526,770 4.6 0.1 .. 7.8 Insecticides and disinfectants 1,417,709 12.5 0.3 3.2 8. Mechanical machinery and equipment 906,447 8.0 0.2 18.0 8.1 Gas turbines, except turbojets and turboprops . . . . 8.2 Gas turbine parts .. .. .. .. 8.3 Nuclear reactors 8,487 0.1 0.0 -34.2 8.4 Isotope separation machinery and equipment . . . . 8.5 Laser-operated machines and tools or by other type of light or light beam, etc. 72,358 0.6 0.0 29.3 8.6 Numerically controlled horizontal lathes 116,504 1.0 0.0 50.6 8.7 Other numerically controlled lathes 37,113 0.3 0.0 19.7 8.8 Other numerically controlled drills 7,180 0.1 0.0 .. 8.9 Other numerically controlled milling machines .. .. .. .. 8.10 Other numerically knee-type milling machines .. .. .. .. 8.11 Other numerically controlled milling machines 100,185 0.9 0.0 18.5 8.12 Numerically controlled deburring, sharpening, grinding, rectifying, lapping (burnishing), polishing or other finishing machines . . . . 8.13 Other numerically controlled deburring, sharpening, grinding, rectifying, lapping (burnishing), polishing or other finishing machines 119,743 1.1 0.0 15.6 8.14 Numerically controlled sharpeners . . . . 8.15 Numerically controlled rolling, bending, folding, straightening or flattening machines 154,234 1.4 0.0 -0.4 8.16 Numerically controlled smelters 42,362 0.4 0.0 5.1 8.17 Numerically controlled punches 10,245 0.1 0.0 37.0 8.18 Parts and accessories for the machines in sub-groups 8.5 to 8.17 132,142 1.2 0.0 11.7 8.19 Machines and equipment for resistance welding metals, partially or fully automated 8,757 0.1 0.0 .. 8.20 Machines and equipment for arc welding metals, partially or fully automated . . . . 9. Weapons and munitions 232,563 2.0 0.0 28.6 Total 11,364,697 100.0 2.3 13.3 Total industrial production 485,187,205 . 100.0 26.2 Notes: .Data protected by statistical secrecy 1) Source: Industrial Products Survey. 2) '.'=data point not available 3) '..'=data point protected by statistical secret 4) '...'=data point not available due to serious sampling error 5) In 2021, with the entry into force of the new EU regulation on business statistics, there was a methodological change in the Industrial Products Survey, from which the indicators published here are obtained. In order to measure the impact, the 2021 data are published on the Industrial Products Survey website, with both methodologies. The details of said change can also be referred to there, in the methodological document. Source: National Statistics Institute