France Business Confidence

Last Release

Nov 30, 2025

Actual

98.1

Units In

Points

100.9

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Dec 18, 2025

Time to Release

25 Days 7 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
124 Jun 2000	67 Mar 2009	100.13 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 business climate indicator fell to 98 in November 2025 from 101 in October, moving below expectations and its long-term average of 100. Pessimism notably worsened for overall order books, which dropped to -20 from -15 in October, and for foreign orders, which fell to -15 from -4, mainly affecting other transport equipment. Optimism for personal production prospects eased to 14 from 19, though it remained well above the long-term average, while past production improved (-10 vs -13) but stayed below average. Positive sentiment about finished-goods inventories declined (16 vs 19), general production prospects remained weak at -10, and economic uncertainty held near 30. Workforce balances turned slightly negative (-1 vs 0), and expected selling price trends fell to 2 from 4. By sector, confidence rose in food products and beverages, increased in computer, electronic, and optical products, fell in transport equipment, and improved slightly in other manufacturing.