Consumer and business confidence

In July 2019, the consumer confidence index got better again moving from 109.8 to 113.4. The improvement was due to the positive trend of all […]

Contractual wages and salaries

The index of wages according to the national collective bargaining agreement measures the evolution of wages and salaries (per employee or per hour) determined by […]

Foreign trade with non-EU countries

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in June 2019. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in June […]

Road accidents

In 2018, 172,553 road accidents occurred in Italy resulting in death or injury, down comparing with 2017 (-1.4%), with 3,334 deaths (within 30 days) and […]

Production in construction

Construction output decreased by 0.1% in the month-on-month series in May 2019, representing the third consecutive decline. In May 2019 construction output slightly rose by […]

Industrial turnover and orders

In May 2019 the seasonally adjusted turnover index increased by 1.6% compared to the previous month (+1.4% the domestic market and +1.9% in non-domestic market); […]

Foreign trade and import prices

In May 2019 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to April 2019, increased both for outgoing flows (+1.3%) and for incoming flows (+0.7%). Exports rose for EU countries […]

Consumer prices

In June 2019 the rate of change of Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) increased by 0.1% on the previous month and […]

Poverty in Italy

In 2018, over 1.8 million households in absolute poverty (with an incidence of 7.0%) were estimated, for a total of 5 million individuals (incidence of […]

Industrial production

The index measures the monthly evolution of the volume of industrial production (excluding construction). With effect from January 2018 the indices are calculated with reference […]