Business confidence by country

Every economy Bullrun holds a reading for: 42 in all, ranked highest first. New Zealand is the highest at 102.8 and Ireland the lowest at 95.7; the median is 100.0. Each row carries its own period and source, because these providers publish on different calendars - two rows in this table can be more than a year apart.

• Economies covered42
• Highest102.8 New Zealand
• Lowest95.7 Ireland
• Median100.0

Business confidence by country, ranked

How the scale reads

These are the same bands that shade the map on the Global Markets dashboard, so a country's colour there and its band here always agree.

What this measures

Business confidence for 42 economies, as the OECD's amplitude-adjusted index where 100 is that country's OWN long-run average - so the numbers are already comparable across countries without a second normalisation, and the whole cross-section packs into roughly 95 to 104. This is soft data: it moves before output does, which is the point of watching it, but it measures sentiment rather than activity.

Source: OECD composite leading indicators, monthly. Coverage differs from metric to metric because these providers cover different sets of economies, and a gap is left as a gap rather than filled from a proxy - an absent economy is one we hold no reading for, never a zero. See the data license.

Other metrics by country

Global markets dashboard · Every economy scored · Screen stocks by country