Marriages in Italy

230,613 marriages were celebrated in Italy in 2009 and just over 217,000 in 2010 (provisional data), equalling 3.6 marriages for every 1,000 inhabitants. In just […]

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

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2005=100) referring to September 2012. The results of […]

Production in construction

In September 2012 the seasonally adjusted index decreased by 8.0% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter July-September, […]

Preliminary estimate of GDP

In the third quarter of 2012 the seasonally and calendar adjusted, chained volume measure of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decreased by 0.2 per cent with […]

Birth and fertility

According to advance data on the demographic balance for the resident population, 546,607 births were registered in 2011, around 15,000 fewer than in 2010. The […]

Consumer prices

The Consumer Price Index measures the change in prices over time of a set of goods and services (CPI basket) representative of Italian household consumption. […]

Industrial production

The index measures the monthly evolution of the volume of industrial production (excluding construction). Since January 2009 the indices have been calculated with reference to […]

Construction costs for residential building

The construction costs index for residential building approximates the quarterly evolution of costs of the residential construction sector. Since the first quarter 2009 the indices […]

Italy’s Economic Outlook

During 2012, the deceleration in global economic growth will halve real international trade growth compared to 2011. Oil is expected to reach 112.2 dollars per […]