Consumer tendency - August 2023 | Publications | GUS - Portal Informacyjny

In August 2023, there was an improvement in both current and future consumer sentiment moods compared to the previous month. The current consumer confidence indicator, syn-thetically describing the current trends in individual consumption, was -22.3  which was by 2.6 p.p. higher in relation to last month. 

Among the components of the indicator, the evaluations of the current possibility of making important purchases and current economic situation of the country improvement the most (increases by 5.9 percentage points and 3.8 percentage points, respectively). A higher values were also recorded for the evaluations of the future economic situation of the country  and future financial situation of the household (increases by 2.9 percentage points and 1.2 percentage points, respectively). Lower value than a month before was recorded only for the evaluation of the current financial situation of the household (decrease by 0.3 percentage points).

Referring to August 2022, the current value of current consumer confidence indicator is higher by 22.6 percentage points.