Italian business value added rose 2.5% in nominal terms in 2024
The number of Italian industrial and service businesses rose 0.5% to more than 4.5 million in 2024, while nominal value added increased 2.5%, Istat reported.
Event / data period: 2024
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Italy had just over 4.5 million industrial and service businesses in 2024, up 0.5% from a year earlier; service businesses increased 0.8%. Their nominal value added topped €1,100 billion, up 2.5%. Services rose 4.2% and industry in the strict sense 0.6%, while construction fell 0.5%.
Employment increased 1.1%, including a 1.3% rise in services. Companies belonging to business groups generated 66.4% of turnover and 58.7% of industrial and service value added. Istat published the figures on 15 October 2026; the value-added change is nominal, not adjusted for price effects.
Data
Italian business statistics
Annual changes among industrial and service businesses.
- Annual change in number of businesses
- 0.5 percent
- 2024 · Observed
- Annual change in service businesses
- 0.8 percent
- 2024 · Observed
- Annual change in nominal value added
- 2.5 percent
- 2024 · Observed
- Change in nominal service-sector value added
- 4.2 percent
- 2024 · Observed
- Change in nominal industrial value added
- 0.6 percent
- 2024 · Observed
- Change in nominal construction value added
- -0.5 percent
- 2024 · Observed
- Annual change in employment
- 1.1 percent
- 2024 · Observed
- Change in service-sector employment
- 1.3 percent
- 2024 · Observed
- Share of turnover generated by business groups
- 66.4 percent
- 2024 · Observed
- Share of industrial and service value added generated by business groups
- 58.7 percent
- 2024 · Observed
Methodology
Annual changes in Istat’s 2024 business accounts release; value-added rates are nominal.
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