China Business Confidence
How optimistic firms are about the months ahead.
98.4
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Feb 2000 to Aug 2026
Source: OECD · Business Confidence Indicator (BCICP), amplitude-adjusted, long-term average = 100.
China Business Confidence in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In China, the business confidence rose by 0.1 pts over the year to Aug 2026, from 98.2 in Aug 2025.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 97.3 in Nov 2022 to 99.6 in Feb 2023.
Its average since Feb 2000 is 100.0, and the latest reading is below that.
China is 27th of 29 countries in our Business Confidence by Country ranking.
How this series is defined
Everything you need to check the figure against the source.
- Source
- OECD
- Series
- See the citation below
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Unit
- index
- Seasonal adjustment
- Seasonally adjusted
- Latest observation
- Aug 2026
- Revision status
- Latest published estimate, subject to revision
100 is the long-run average; readings above it mean firms expect better-than-average conditions.
Data refreshed 2026-10-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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