Consumer tendency - February 2026
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In February 2026, there was an improvement in consumer sentiment moods regarding the current situation (compared to the previous month) while sentiment moods regarding the future situation deteriorated. The current consumer confidence indicator, synthetically describing the current trends in individual consumption, was minus 9.1a which was by 0.5 p.p. higher in relation to last month.
Among the components of the indicator, the evaluation of the future economic situation of the country improved the most (increase by 2.7 percentage points). A higher values were also recorded for the evaluations of the current economic situation of the country and future financial situation of the household (increases by 2.5 percentage points and 0.4 percentage points, respectively). Lower values than a month before was recorded for the evaluations of the current possibility of making important purchases and current financial situation of the household (decreases by 3.2 percentage points and 0.1 percentage points, respectively).
Referring to February 2025, the value of current consumer confidence indicator has improved in February 2026 by 5.7 percentage points.
a Both 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 02-11.02.2026, 1351 interviews were conducted.
