France final domestic demand volume (SA-WDA)
France final domestic demand volume (SA-WDA) stood at 654,876 in Q2 2026, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Quarterly GDP and value added table (Value · Quarterly), with a complete series running from Q1 1949 to Q2 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Quarterly GDP and value added table
| Indicator | Q2-2026 | Q1-2026 | Q4-2025 | Q3-2025 | Q2-2025 | Q1-2025 | Q4-2024 | Q3-2024 | Q2-2024 | Q1-2024 | |
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| Levels | |||||||||||
| Total final domestic demand - Volumes chained at previous year prices - SA-WDA series | 654,876 | 658,402 | 653,981 | 655,903 | 657,223 | 653,634 | 649,776 | 651,250 | 645,435 | 646,272 | |
| Total final domestic demand excluding stocks - Values at current prices - SA-WDA series | 765,187 | 757,537 | 755,964 | 752,692 | 748,054 | 745,722 | 741,484 | 740,901 | 736,237 | 735,607 |
Understanding france final domestic demand volume (SA-WDA)
This measure tracks the total physical volume of final expenditures on consumption and investment within the domestic economy, expressed using chained previous year prices and adjusted for seasonal and working-day variations. By stripping out the influence of price inflation, it reveals whether real purchasing power and physical asset accumulation are expanding or contracting across households, government, and businesses. It excludes international trade flows, concentrating strictly on domestic absorption capacity in real terms.
Analysts should use this volume series rather than its nominal counterpart when evaluating the true physical pace of economic expansion or contraction over consecutive quarters. Chain-linked measures require caution when summing components across distant periods, as non-additivity can occur due to changing price weights between base years. Revisions are driven by updated deflators derived from detailed price indices covering consumer goods, capital equipment, and public sector services.
Frequently asked questions
- Why use chained prices instead of constant base year prices for this series?
- Chained pricing updates the underlying price weights annually to account for structural changes in the economy, preventing the distortions that occur when using a fixed historical base year.
- Does this volume series account for price inflation?
- Yes, price inflation is completely deflated out of the data, leaving only the real physical changes in goods and services consumed or invested domestically.
- Can the individual components of chained domestic demand sum up to the total?
- Due to the mathematics of chain-linking, the individual sub-components may not sum perfectly to the chained total, a statistical property known as non-additivity.