Business Confidence in Netherlands decreased to -28.70 points in April from 0.20 points in March of 2020. Business Confidence in Netherlands averaged 0.84 points from 1985 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 10.90 points in February of 2018 and a record low of -28.70 points in April of 2020. In Netherlands, the producer confidence survey covers 1,700 manufacturing companies and gathers up-to-date information on economic developments for all activities of the manufacturing industry. The survey covers three components: how companies evaluate their order positions, their stocks of finished products in the month under review and the anticipated economic activity for the next three months. The index is calculated as the percentage of positive answers minus the percentage of negative answers. Therefore, the indicator varies from -100 (all participants evaluate their situation as poor and expect it to become worse) to 100 (all companies are happy with current situation and expect it to improve); 0 indicates neutrality. This page provides - Netherlands Business Confidence - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.