Consumer and business confidence - June 2022

In June 2022, the consumer confidence index worsened from 102.7 to 98.3 because of a fall in all of its components. In particular, the economic […]

Foreign trade with non-EU countries - May 2022

Data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU27 countries in May 2022 are preliminary. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in May 2022 will […]

Production in the construction sector – April 2022

In April 2022, estimates for construction output decreased by 1.3% in the month-on-month series, this is the first monthly fall seen since July 2021. In […]

Foreign trade and Industrial import prices - April 2022

In April 2022 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to March 2022, increased by +1.5% for outgoing flows and by +7.0% for incoming flows. Exports raised by +1.2% […]

Consumer prices - May 2022

In May 2022 the rate of change of the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) was +0.8% on monthly basis and +6.8% […]

Labour market - Q1 2022

The labour input, as measured by hours worked, increases by 1.5% compared to the previous quarter and by -6.7% compared to the first quarter of […]

Industrial Production - April 2022

The index measures the monthly evolution of the volume of industrial production (excluding construction). From January 2022 the indices are calculated as annual chain-linked indices […]

Export of Italian regions - Q1 2022

In the first quarter of 2022, exports increased in seasonally-adjusted terms, compared with the previous period: +9.3% for the South and Islands, +9.1% for the […]

Retail trade - April 2022

In April 2022 estimates for seasonally adjusted index of value sales remained unchanged in the month on month series, while volume fell by 0.4%. In […]

Italy’s Economic Outlook

GDP is expected to increase both in 2022 (+2.8%) and in 2023 (+1.9% Table 1) In both years the increase of GDP will mainly be […]