Latest numbers from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, show that across the 17 member countries of the euro area January 2011 output was down 4.5% year-on-year and up 1.8% on December 2010.
Among the Member States for which data are available for January 2011, construction output rose year-on-year in seven and fell in six. The highest year-on-year increases were registered in Germany (+55.4%), Poland (+11.1%) and Sweden (+10.0%), and the largest decreases in Spain (-43.2%), Slovenia (-17.1%) and Bulgaria (-12.4%).
Building construction decreased by 3.1% in the euro area, but increased by 0.2% in the EU27. This followed year-on-year falls of 11.5% and 7.7% respectively in December 2010. Civil engineering dropped by 12.5% in the euro area and by 9.8% in the EU27, after year-on-year falls of 24.5% and 18.0% respectively in the previous month.
Among the member countries for which data are available for January 2011, construction output rose month-on-month in five and fell in seven. The highest month-on-month increases were registered in Germany (+36.3%), France (+7.9%) and Slovenia (+3.8%), and the largest decreases in the UK (-9.4%), Romania (-6.4%) and Poland (-3.1%).
Building construction rose by 1.1% in the euro area and by 2.6% in the EU27, after month-on-month falls of 1.0% and 4.7% respectively in December 2010. Civil engineering increased by 8.0% in the euro area and by 4.7% in the EU27, after month-on-month falls of 8.8% and 7.9% respectively in the previous month.
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