Construction - December 2025
Construction output continued to increase
Publication Date: 06. 02. 2026
Product Code: 200035-25
“Construction was successful in December; the output increased in both the year-on-year and the month-on-month comparison and both the building construction and the civil engineering 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 1.7%, month-on-month, in December. In the year-on-year comparison, it increased by 5.3%. The building construction output increased by 2.3% and the civil engineering construction increased by 10.9%.
The approximate value of constructions for which a building permit was granted in December reached CZK 36.0 billion and decreased by 54.7%, year-on-year. “The year-on-year decrease in the approximate value of permitted constructions was influenced by a high comparison basis. After having modelled deduction of constructions with budgets over CZK 1 billion, the approximate value would decrease by a tenth,” Petra Cuřínová, Head of the Construction Statistics Unit of the CZSO, explains.
In December 2025, construction of 2 774 dwellings started and the number decreased by 11.2%, y-o-y. The number of completed dwellings amounted to 2 988, which was a y-o-y increase by 56.1%.
According to data of Eurostat, construction output in the EU27 in November 2025 decreased by 0.4%, year-on-year. According to a preliminary release calendar, Eurostat will release data for December 2025 on 19 February 2026.
For more detailed information on the development in construction see the Supplementary information to the news release on construction.
Notes
The year-on-year development of construction output (production) is published after having been adjusted for the influence of the number of working days. Month-on-month rates have also been seasonally adjusted.
Starting with the data for January 2026, contents of the news release will change. Within improvement of the information value of indicators, month-on-month changes in production (output) will be commented based on the trend cycle and the chart of year-on-year changes in construction output will be published without seasonally adjusted data. Changes only apply to the text of the news release and charts thereto; time series including seasonally adjusted data remain unchanged.
Based on changes in the legislation related to the Programme of statistical surveys, data on an approximate value of permitted constructions (for which a building permit is granted) will not be available; they will be replaced by the number of building permits granted. The quarterly supplementary information (to the news release) will be extended by selected indicators of completed housing construction.
Methodology: https://csu.gov.cz/sta_m
Responsible head at the CZSO: Radek Matějka, Director of the Agricultural and Forestry, Industrial, Construction, and Energy Statistics Department, phone number: (+420) 736 168 543, e-mail: radek.matejka@csu.gov.cz
Contact person: Petra Cuřínová, Head of the Construction Statistics Unit, phone number: (+420) 737 280 494, e-mail: petra.curinova@csu.gov.cz
Method of data acquisition: direct surveys of the CZSO (Stav 1–12, Stav 2–12, and the Registry of Territorial Identification, Addresses and Real Estate (RÚIAN))
End of data collection: 2 February 2026
Related outputs: https://csu.gov.cz/produkty/sta_ts
https://csu.gov.cz/produkty/bvz_ts
international comparison in EU countries: Eurostat
Next news release will be published on: 12 March 2026