Global Industry Forecasts > Quarterly Industry Forecasts > Consumer Goods

Despite economic and geopolitical developments over the past three months including further oil-price declines (until the recent partial bounceback) overall global consumer spending growth this year is still expected to expand by 3%. Consequently, producers of consumer goods face broadly unchanged demand conditions at the world level, so our forecast for their production growth is also unchanged, at just over 3% this year and 3½% in 2016.