Monthly consumer confidence in Europe 2005-2020
Consumer confidence across multiple European countries decreased significantly in April 2020, the first full month of COVID-19 measures on the continent. In almost all countries, consumers revealed a pessimism that was close to figures seen in 2008, shortly after the fall of Lehman Brothers. Interestingly for some countries, however, pessimism was not as present. In Belgium and the Netherlands, for example, confidence was lower in 2013 than in either 2008 or 2020.
