Consumer and business confidence

In January 2020, the consumer confidence index went up from 110.8 to 111.8. The improvement in confidence was spread across all the components. In particular, […]

Industrial and construction producer prices

In December 2019, compared with November 2019, the industrial producer price index stayed unchanged. Prices remained stable in both domestic and non-domestic market. The percentage […]

Foreign trade with non-EU countries

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in December 2019. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in December […]

Industrial turnover and orders

In November 2019 the seasonally adjusted turnover index remained unchanged compared to the previous month (+0.3% the domestic market and -0.4% in non-domestic market); the […]

Birth rate and fertility

The number of births continues to decrease: in 2018, 439,747 children were registered in the General Register Office, over 18,000 less than the previous year […]

Production in construction

In November 2019 estimates for construction output fell in the month on month series, contracting by 4.0%. Construction output decreased by 1.2% in the three […]

Foreign trade and Industrial import prices

In November 2019 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to October 2019, decreased for outgoing flows (-4.2%) and reimained stationary for incoming flows (0.0%). Exports fell for both […]

Consumer prices

In December 2019 the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) increased by 0.2% on monthly basis and by 0.5% with respect to […]

Building permits indicators

In residential buildings the number of dwellings decreased in the second quarter 2019 when compared with the previous quarter (-2.8%); useful floor area also decreased […]

Retail trade

In November 2019 estimates of retail trade continued to decrease in the month-on-month series, falling by 0.2% in value terms and dropping by 0.3% in […]