Construction - December 2024

“Construction was successful in December; the output increased in both the year-on-year and the month-on-month comparison and both civil engineering construction and building construction were increasing,” Radek Matějka, Director of the Agricultural and Forestry, Industrial, Construction, and Energy Statistics Department of the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), says. The construction output increased by 4.5%, month-on-month. In the year-on-year comparison, it increased by 9.7%. The building construction output increased by 7.8% and the civil engineering construction increased by 13.3%, year-on-year.

The approximate value of constructions for which a building permit was granted in December reached CZK 78.7 billion and decreased by 6.6%, year-on-year.  

In December, construction of 2 990 dwellings started, which was a decrease by 5.7%, y-o-y. The number of completed dwellings amounted to 1 934, which was a decrease by 60.1%, y-o-y. “A significant decrease in the number of completed dwellings in December was recorded in family houses as well as in multi-dwelling buildings and, besides a low number of dwellings, it was also owing to a high comparison basis,” Petra Cuřínová, Head of the Construction Statistics Unit of the CZSO, says.

According to Eurostat, construction output in the EU27 in November 2024 increased by 0.9%, year-on-year. According to a preliminary release calendar, Eurostat will release data for December 2024 on 20 February 2025.

For more detailed information on the development in construction see the Supplementary information to the news release on construction.