Quarterly Sector Accounts - 1. quarter of 2026
Income of households increased by 3.2%, y-o-y
Publication Date: 30. 06. 2026
Product Code: 050057-26
Non-financial corporations: the profit rate decreased, the investment rate increased
The profit rate in the Q1 2026 was 42.5%, which is by 1.3 percentage point (p. p.) less, compared to the previous quarter and by 2.5 p. p.1 less than in the previous year. The total labour costs of non-financial corporations increased by 8.7%1, y-o-y. The investment rate increased by 0.5 p. p., q-o-q, and reached 28.2%. It increased by 1.5 p. p.1, year-on-year.
Households: both the income and consumption increased, y-o-y
“In the Q1 2026, the real income of households increased by 3.2%, year-on-year, and household consumption per capita by 2.9%,“ Vladimír Kermiet, Director of the National Accounts Department of the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), informed.
The total of real monetary and non-monetary income of households per capita increased in the Q1 2026 by 0.3%, q-o-q; in the y-o-y comparison, it increased by 3.2%1.
Household real consumption per capita stagnated, q-o-q; in the year-on-year comparison, it increased by 2.9%1.
The average monthly income from employment reached CZK 53 1321 in the Q1 2026. It increased in real terms by 1.0%, q-o-q; in the y-o-y comparison, it increased by 5.6%1.
The household saving rate was 20.0% in the Q1 2026, which is by 0.1 p. p. less compared to the previous quarter and by 0.3 p. p. more in the year-on-year comparison.
The investment rate in the household sector decreased by 0.1 p. p., quarter-on-quarter, and reached 10.4%. In the year-on-year comparison, the investment rate of households remained unchanged.1
GDP estimate refinement
At the same time, the gross domestic product (GDP) estimate has been refined. The GDP increased in the Q1 2026 by 0.2%, q-o-q, and in the year-on-year comparison by 2.2%. For the time series of GDP resources and uses see: https://csu.gov.cz/produkty/hdp_ts.
1 seasonally non-adjusted piece of data
All terms are in terms of national accounts; for explanations of terms written in bold italics see: https://apl.czso.cz/nufile/Definitions.pdf.
Notes
Contact person: Vladimír Kermiet, Director of the National Accounts Department, T: +420 274 054 247, E: vladimir.kermiet@csu.gov.cz
Used data sources updated as at: 22 June 2026
Related CZSO’s website: GDP, national accounts | Statistics
Next news release will be published on: 30 September 2026 (Quarterly Sector Accounts for the second quarter of 2026)
Data of quarterly sector accounts are seasonally adjusted unless otherwise stated.
The news releases of Eurostat on quarterly sector accounts are published later. The latest published information for the fourth quarter of 2025 is available at:
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Quarterly sector accounts data are published on the CZSO’s website in the tables of Transactions in products and distributive transactions by sector: http://apl.czso.cz/pll/rocenka/rocenkavyber.kvart_qsa?mylang=EN&oblast=@RU
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