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NI Composite Economic Index

The NICEI is an experimental quarterly measure of the performance of the NI economy based on available official statistics.

Headline results

Latest results published 26 June 2025

  • The NICEI indicates that economic output decreased by 0.6% over the quarter to March 2025 and increased by 1.6% over the year.
  • UK GDP increased over the quarter (0.7%) and over the year (1.3%) to quarter 1 2025.
  • Private sector output as measured by the NICEI decreased over the quarter (0.9%) and increased over the year (1.9%). While, the NICEI Public sector index increased over the quarter (0.3%) and over the year (0.7%).

The NICEI data will now be available via the new NISRA data portal(external link opens in a new window / tab), which has been designed to enhance the user experience (as described below) and remove the need for Excel tables.

The Data Portal will give users the flexibility to slice and dice datasets, run meta-data searches, filter results, plot interactive charts, visualise data over interactive maps, share results and automate processes by reading data via API queries. The outputs follow the Open Data recommendations by providing access to multiple data formats (CSV, JSON-stat, PX, and XLSX).

Current publication, press release and tables

  • NICEI publication and tables -26 June 2025 
NICEI Q1 2025 Fact sheet

Archive data

  • Previous NICEI publications and methodology paper

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Last updated: 26 June 2025

Related to NI Composite Economic Index

Publications

  • NICEI publication and tables Q1 2025

    Published 26 June 2025
  • NICEI publication and tables Q4 2024

    Published 27 March 2025
  • NICEI publication and tables Q3 2024

    Published 16 January 2025
  • NICEI publication and tables Q2 2024

    Published 26 September 2024
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Contacts

Composite Economic Index

Email: Suzanne.Bradley@nisra.gov.uk
 

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