Research and development

In 2013, in current price terms, Italy’s gross domestic expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) was near to 21 billion euro. It increased by 2.3% […]

Structure and competitiveness of enterprises

In 2013, value added of enterprise in industrial and services sectors reduced for the second year in a row (-1.7% compared to 2012); the number […]

Air transport in Italy

The National Institute of Statistics releases statistics on air transport for the year 2014. The Air transport Survey is carried out in accordance with EC […]

Non observed economy

In the comprehensive revision of national accounts accompanying the migration to the ESA 2010, Istat has developed an in-depth revision of all the methodologies used […]

Monthly Report no

The confidence of manufacturing enterprises remains weak driven by the expectations about the industrial production and orders. The construction industry remains stagnating. In the third […]

Pensions and pensioners

In 2014 total pension expenditure reached 277,067 millions of euro, registering an increase by 1.6% compared to 2013. Its incidence rate on Gdp grew by […]

Employment and unemployment (monthly)

In order to improve the timeliness of statistical information on the Italian labour market and in accordance with the agreements made within the European Union, […]

Quarterly national accounts

In the third quarter of 2015 the seasonally adjusted chained volume measure of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.2 per cent with respect to […]

Consumer prices (provisional)

In November 2015, according to preliminary estimates, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) declined by 0.4% compared with the previous month […]

Industrial producer prices

The industrial producer price index measures the evolution of output prices for goods manufactured in Italy and sold on the domestic and non-domestic markets. Since […]