Consumer tendency - April 2026
In April 2026, consumer sentiment moods deteriorated, 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 14.1a which was by 1.9 lower in relation to last month.
Among the components of the indicator, compared to March this year the evaluation of the current economic situation of the country deteriorated the most (decrease by 6.0). A lower values were also recorded for the evaluations of the future and current financial situation of the household (decreases by 3.2 and 2.8, respectively). Higher values than a month before was recorded for the evaluations of the current possibility of making important purchases and future economic situation of the country (increases by 2.6 and 0.3, respectively).
Referring to March 2025, the value of current consumer confidence indicator has improved in March 2026 by 2.4.
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 07-16.04.2026, 1407 interviews were conducted.