Urban environment

The orientation of city governments to sustainable management and to implement “smart city” policies is described by grouping the response indicators related to eight environmental […]

Citizens’ satisfaction

After five years, in 2016 the percentage of population that were highly satisfied with their life (answering 8, 9 or 10) grew: from 35.1% to […]

Tourist flow in Italy

The National Institute of Statistics releases data on tourist flows and their features in 2015 from the point view of supply and demand side. In […]

Italy’s Economic Outlook

In 2016 GDP is expected to increase by 0.8 percent in real terms.The domestic demand will contribute to the growth for 1.2 percentage points of […]

Research and development

In 2014, in current price terms Italy’s gross domestic expenditure on Research and Development (GERD) was nearly 22,3 billion euro. It increased by 6.2% 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 2016. In September 2016 […]

Production and costs in construction

In September 2016 the seasonally adjusted index of production in construction compared with the previous month decreased by 3.9%. In the quarter Jul-Sep 2016 the […]

Preliminary estimate of GDP

In the third quarter of 2016 the seasonally and calendar adjusted, chained volume measure of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.3 per cent with […]

Consumer prices

In October 2016 the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) declined by 0.1 on monthly basis and by 0.2% with respect to […]

Marriages, separations and divorces

In 2015, there were 194,377 marriages in Italy, about 4,600 more than 2014. It was the most consistent increase since 2008. In the period 2008-2014, […]