Tourist flow in Italy

The National Institute of Statistics releases data on tourist flows and their features in 2017 from a supply and demand-side perspective. In 2017, around 421 million nights […]

Consumer and business confidence

In November 2018, the consumer confidence index worsened from 116.5 to 114.8. With regard to the individual components, the economic, current and future components diminished […]

Foreign residents in Italy

On the 1st of January 2018, non-EU foreigners holding a residence permit in Italy were 3,714,934. Citizens from Morocco (443,147), Albania (430,340), China (309,110), Ukraine […]

Foreign trade with non-EU countries

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in October 2018. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in October […]

Real estate sales and loans

In the second quarter of 2018, notary agrements regarding sales of real estate units and any other kind of exchange of properties and appurtenances in […]

Italy’s economic outlook 2018-2019

In 2018, GDP is expected to increase by 1.1 percent in real terms.The domestic demand will provide a contribution of 1.3 percentage points while foreign […]

Production in construction

Construction output is estimated to increase by 0.5% in the third quarter of 2018 (July to September) compared to the previous quarter. This rise follows […]

Foreign trade and Industrial import prices

In September 2018 seasonally-adjusted data, compared to August 2018, decreased both for outgoing flows (-2.1%) and for incoming flows (-0.3%). Exports fell both for non […]

Consumer prices

In October 2018 the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) was stable on monthly basis and increased by 1.6% with respect to […]

Homicide victims

In 2017, 357 persons were murdered in Italy (234 males and 123 females), equal to 0.59 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, with 0.79 homicides per 100,000 […]