Italy’s Economic Outlook

During 2012, the deceleration in global economic growth will halve real international trade growth. The easing of tensions in the commodity markets is expected 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

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

Production in construction

In March 2012 the seasonally adjusted index increased by 9.5% compared with the previous month. The percentage change of the average of the quarter January-March, […]

Preliminary estimate of GDP

In the first quarter of 2012 the seasonally and calendar adjusted, chained volume measure of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) decreased by 0.8 per cent with […]

Consumer prices

The Consumer Price Index for the whole nation (NIC) is based on the entire presentpopulation’s consumption. The Harmonised index of Consumer Prices (HICP), calculated according […]

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 […]

Life tables of the resident population

At the address http://demo.istat.it/index_e.html (under the section “Elaborations”) and at the address http://dati.istat.it/?lang=en (under the theme “Population and Households”), Istat releases the Life tables of […]

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 […]

Employment and unemployment (monthly)

In order to improve the timeliness of statistical information on the Italian labour market and in accordance with the agreements made within the European Union, […]