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Italy Q4 GDP confirmed at +0.3% q/q, +0.8% y/y
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Posted on March 4, 2026
1 min readLast updated: March 4, 2026
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1 min readLast updated: March 4, 2026
Italy’s economy posted a quarterly GDP growth of 0.3% in Q4 2025, confirming earlier estimates, with year-on-year growth at 0.8%. Full-year 2025 growth stood at 0.5%, while the Meloni government projects 0.7% in 2026 amid continued sluggish expansion despite EU recovery fund inflows.
ROME, March 4 (Reuters) - Italy's economy grew by 0.3% in the fourth quarter of last year from the previous three months thanks to inventory accumulation and firm investments, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Wednesday, confirming a previous printout.
Year-on-year, fourth quarter gross domestic product in the euro zone's third largest economy increased by 0.8%, also in line with the estimate ISTAT made on January 30.
Over the whole of 2025, the Italian economy grew by 0.5% from the year earlier, ISTAT reported on Monday.
Giorgia Meloni's government is forecasting a 0.7% growth rate in 2026, which would be a fourth consecutive year of sub-1% growth despite a steady inflow of billions of euros of EU-post-COVID 19 recovery funds.
(Reporting by Antonella Cinelli, graphic by Stefano Bernabei, editing by Gavin Jones)
Italy's GDP increased by 0.3% quarter-on-quarter and 0.8% year-on-year in Q4 2025.
Economic growth was driven by inventory accumulation and firm investments.
The data was released by ISTAT, Italy's national statistics bureau.
Despite EU-post-COVID recovery funds, annual growth remains below 1%.
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