Consumer and business confidence

With regard to the consumer survey, the confidence climate index decreased in May 2017 from 107.4 to 105.4. All components worsened: economic, personal, current and […]

Turnover in services

The Services turnover index measures the quarterly change recorded in sales at current prices by enterprises belonging to the domain of services. Starting from the […]

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 with non-EU countries

Istat presents preliminary data on Italy’s foreign trade with non-EU countries in April 2017. The results of the survey on total foreign trade in April […]

Italy’s Economic Outlook

In 2017 GDP is expected to increase by 1.0 percent in real terms.The domestic demand will provide a contribution of 1.1 percentage points to GDP […]

The economic performance of agriculture in Italy

In 2016 the gross value added of the agricultural sector at current prices was 31,6 billion euro, 2.1% of the national value added. Compared to […]

Production and costs in construction

In March 2017 the seasonally adjusted index of production in construction compared with the previous month increased by 0.3%. In the quarter Jan-Mar 2017 the […]

Foreign trade and Industrial import prices

Istat presents data on Italy’s foreign trade as well as unit value and volume indices (base year 2010=100) referring to March 2017. In March 2017 […]

Preliminary estimate of GDP

In the first quarter of 2017 the seasonally and calendar adjusted, chained volume measure of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.2 per cent with […]

Consumer prices

In April 2017, the Italian consumer price index for the whole nation (NIC) increased by 0.4% on monthly basis and by 1.9% compared with April […]