Business Confidence in Ireland decreased to 1 percent in the third quarter of 2018 from 21 percent in the second quarter of 2018. Business Confidence in Ireland averaged 18.65 percent from 2011 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 50 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014 and a record low of -24 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011.

Business Confidence in Ireland is expected to be -12.00 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Business Confidence in Ireland to stand at -14.00 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Ireland Business Confidence is projected to trend around 5.00 percent in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Ireland Business Last Previous Highest Lowest Unit
Business Confidence 1.00 21.00 50.00 -24.00 percent [+]
Manufacturing PMI 53.90 54.00 59.10 48.00 [+]
Services PMI 55.30 55.90 64.00 48.30 Index Points [+]
Industrial Production 0.80 -8.80 60.00 -19.30 percent [+]
Industrial Production Mom 0.10 15.40 33.50 -24.00 percent [+]
Manufacturing Production 0.20 -9.40 85.90 -20.20 percent [+]
Changes in Inventories -48.00 -246.00 3963.00 -944.00 EUR Million [+]
Car Registrations 14404.00 14178.00 32961.00 474.00 [+]
Internet Speed 15614.31 15285.23 16960.56 2269.39 KBps [+]
IP Addresses 1663376.00 1600356.00 1719799.00 775588.00 IP [+]
Competitiveness Index 75.68 75.96 75.96 4.74 Points [+]
Competitiveness Rank 23.00 23.00 29.00 22.00 [+]
Ease of Doing Business 23.00 17.00 23.00 7.00 [+]
Electricity Production 2617.00 2512.00 2820.00 1747.00 Gigawatt-hour [+]
Corruption Index 73.00 74.00 85.70 69.00 Points [+]
Corruption Rank 18.00 19.00 25.00 11.00 [+]


Ireland Business Confidence

The ISME Quarterly Trends Survey measures the level of optimism that people who run small and medium companies in Ireland have about the performance of the economy and how they feel about their organizations’ prospects. The survey is based on responses from around 1000 SME owner managers across all sectors of the economy and is presented as a balance of sentiment for twelve indicators including: business expectations and environment, profitability, employment, sales, investment, exports and economic uncertainty. The result is a simple balance between positive and negative answers. This page provides the latest reported value for - Ireland Business Confidence - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news. Ireland Business Confidence - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2019.

Actual Previous Highest Lowest Dates Unit Frequency
1.00 21.00 50.00 -24.00 2011 - 2018 percent Quarterly




Country Last Previous
Australia 0.00 Mar/19
Brazil 58.40 Apr/19
Canada 54.30 Mar/19
China 50.50 Mar/19
Euro Area 0.53 Mar/19
France 101.00 Apr/19
Germany 99.20 Apr/19
India 113.50 Jun/19
Indonesia 104.71 Dec/18
Italy 100.60 Apr/19
Japan 12.00 Mar/19
Mexico 51.50 Mar/19
Netherlands 6.10 Mar/19
Russia -2.00 Mar/19
Saudi Arabia 3.00 Jun/16
Singapore -14.00 Dec/18
South Africa 28.00 Mar/19
South Korea 73.00 Mar/19
Spain -2.30 Mar/19
Switzerland 97.40 Mar/19
Turkey 105.50 Apr/19
United Kingdom -23.00 Mar/19
United States 55.30 Mar/19


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