Birth and fertility

In 2016, 473,438 births were registered in the Resident Population Register, that is almost 12,000 fewer births than in 2015. The figures confirmed the downward […]

New entrepreneurs and high growth enterprises

The expansion of the social, economic and statistical information is carried out from the integration of multiple administrative and statistical sources. This allows to define […]

Consumer and business confidence

With regard to the consumer survey, the confidence climate decreased in November 2017 from 116.0 to 114.3. All components decreased: economic from 143.3 to 139.2, […]

Industrial turnover and orders

The industrial turnover index measures the monthly evolution of sales by industrial enterprises at current prices. The new orders index is an indicator of the […]

Turnover in services

The Services turnover index measures the quarterly change recorded in sales at current prices by enterprises belonging to the domain of services. Starting from the […]

Foreign trade with non-EU countries

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in October 2017. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in October […]

Production and costs in construction

The production in construction index provides monthly statistics on output in the sector, referring not only to all new work, but also to repair and […]

Research and development

In 2015, in current price terms Italy’s gross domestic expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) was nearly 22,2 billion euro. It increased by 1.7% compared […]

Foreign trade and Industrial import prices

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2010=100) referring to September 2017. In September 2017 […]

Productivity Measures

Istat releases productivity statistics for the period 1995-2016. The productivity series are coherent with the results of the latest release of national accounts. The adopted […]