Italy Business Confidence
How optimistic firms are about the months ahead.
100.5
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Jan 1990 to Sep 2026
Source: OECD · Business Confidence Indicator (BCICP), amplitude-adjusted, long-term average = 100.
Italy Business Confidence in context
Worked out from the published series shown above.
In Italy, the business confidence rose by 0.6 pts over the year to Sep 2026, from 99.9 in Sep 2025.
It is the highest reading since May 2023.
Over the past five years it has ranged from 99.6 in Nov 2024 to 102.7 in Oct 2021.
Its average since Jan 1990 is 100.4, and the latest reading is above that.
Italy is 15th of 42 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
- Sep 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 2026-11-06. Figures are the latest published observations and can be revised.
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