Consumer and business confidence

With regard to the consumer survey, the confidence climate index increased in September 2017 from 111.2 to 115.5. All components improved: economic from 129.3 to […]

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 […]

Foreign trade with non-EU countries

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

Health conditions of the elderly

Life expectancy at 65 years in Italy (18.9 years for men and 22.2 for women in 2015) was one year higher than the European Union […]

Annual national accounts

The National Institute of Statistics releases the estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and General Government net borrowing in accordance with the definitions of the […]

Euro-zone economic outlook

Growth in the euro area continued to consolidate. GDP in the second quarter accelerated (+0.6% in Q2 2017 compared to +0.5% in Q1). Leading and […]

Production and costs in construction

In July 2017 the seasonally adjusted index of production in construction compared with the previous month increased by 0.1%. In the quarter May-July 2017 the […]

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 July 2017. In July 2017 […]

Consumer prices

In August 2017, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) increased by 0.3% on monthly basis and by 1.2% compared with August […]

Export of Italian regions

Istat presents the breakdown of national exports by Italian Regions for the reference period January- June 2017. In the second quarter of 2017, compared with […]