Consumer tendency - January 2026 | Publications | GUS - Portal Informacyjny

In January 2026, consumer sentiment moods improved, both regarding the current and future situation (compared to the previous month). The current consumer confidence in-dicator, synthetically describing the current trends in individual consumption, was minus 9.6^a which was by 0.3 p.p. higher in relation to last month.

Among the components of the indicator, the evaluation of the current possibility of making important purchases improved the most (increase by 1.9 percentage points). A higher values were also recorded for the evaluations of the future financial situation of the household and future economic situation of the country (increases by 1.2 percentage points and 0.3 percentage points, respectively). Lower values than a month before was recorded for the evaluations of the current economic situation of the country and current financial situation of the household (decreases by 1.5 percentage points and 0.2 percentage points, respectively).

Referring to January 2025, the current value of current consumer confidence indicator improved by 5.5 percentage points.

^aBoth consumer confidence indicators receive values between -100 and +100. A positive value means dominance of consumers with optimistic attitude over consumers with pessimistic attitude, while negative value means dominance of consumers with pessimistic attitude over consumers with optimistic attitude. In the period of 05-15.01.2026, 1373 interviews were conducted.