The National Statistics Institute provides for a 0.6% increase in GDP in France for 2025, the government 0.7%.
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A breathless economy. French growth is expected to undergo a clear brake in 2025, its main engines such as consumption or investment lacking enthusiasm in a context of budgetary restrictions and global economic uncertainty, INSEE announced on Wednesday.
After 1.1% in 2024, the National Institute of Statistics provides for an only 0.6% increase in gross domestic product (GDP) in the second economy in the euro zone for this year. This rate is lower than the government forecast (0.7%), which the latter judged “Reachable” Despite strong international tensions and a considerable budgetary effort which will continue in 2026.
“Slowly, the euro zone comes out of its torpor, despite the reversal of world exchanges”, With an investment awakening in particular, but “The French economy does not seem to evolve in tune with the continent”Underlines INSEE in its conjuncture note. In detail, after +0.1% in the first quarter, the public body provides a 0.2% increase in GDP during each of the following three quarters.
Traditional pillar of French growth, household consumption would only increase moderately (0.7% after 1.0% in 2024), at the same pace as purchasing power (after 2.5%), despite an associated inflation, expected around 1% at the end of the year.
