France Business Confidence

Last Release

Jun 30, 2025

Actual

95.9

Units In

Points

97.1

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Jul 24, 2025

Time to Release

1 Months 0 Days 7 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
124 Jun 2000	67 Mar 2009	100.15 Points	1976-2025	N/A

In France, Business Climate measures industrial entrepreneurs’ sentiment about current business situation and expectation about business conditions. The survey sample comprises about 4,000 enterprises in the manufacturing and mining industries. The indicator is calculated using factor analysis technique. The index is then calculated in a way to measure the current sentiment in relation to the historic index values of the period 1993-2011. A value over 110 indicates unusually high optimism and a value under 90 indicates unusually high pessimism. The value 100 indicates neutrality.

Latest Updates

France’s manufacturing climate indicator was down to 96 in June 2025, slightly below May’s figure and market forecasts of 97, moving further away from its long-term average. This marked the lowest reading since January, mainly due to a continued decline in overall order books (-24 vs -23 in May) and foreign order books (-17 vs -16), as well as a sharp increase in finished-good inventories (15 vs 9). At the same time, manufacturers remained pessimistic about general production prospects (at -13) and expected workforce size (at -2). Personal production prospects also turned slightly negative (-1 vs 0). Across subsectors, business sentiment deteriorated in machinery and equipment goods and in other manufacturing. However, it improved in food products and beverages, and remained stable in transport equipment.