Construction output volume grew by 4.9% year-on-year and increased by 0.8% compared to the previous month
Construction output volume, based on raw, as well as on calendar-adjusted data was above the previous year’s level by 4.9% in July 2025. Among the main construction groups the construction of buildings rose by 5.7%, that of civil engineering grew by 4.7%. Based on seasonally and working day adjusted indices construction output was above the June 2025 level by 0.8%.
In July 2025 compared to the same month of the previous year:
Output in both main groups of construction increased: the onstruction of buildings by 5.7%, that of civil engineering by 4.7%.
Among the divisions of construction, the construction of buildings increased by 46.1%, civil engineering grew by 12.5%. Production in specialised construction activities, having the largest weight in construction, fell by 15.4%.
The volume of new contracts concluded lagged behind the extremely high base of the previous year by 48.9%, within it the volume of contracts for the construction of buildings increased by 16.5%, those for civil engineering works fell by 66.3%.
The volume of the end-of-July stock of contracts at construction enterprises was 1.9% higher than one year earlier, within it the volume of contracts for the construction of buildings was down by 9.7% and grew by 9.3% for civil engineering works, compared to July 2024.
In the first seven months of 2025 compared to the same period of the previous year:
Construction output volume grew by 0.8%.
Output of construction
| Period | Output of construction | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| volume indices | value at current prices, billion HUF | |||||
| unadjusted (raw) | seasonally and working day adjusted | |||||
| corresponding period of the previous year =100.0% | 2021 = 100.0% | previous month = 100.0% | ||||
| 2018 | 121.3 | 82.1 | 80.6 | x | 3 321.3 | |
| 2019 | 120.4 | 99.1 | 99.1 | x | 4 381.6 | |
| 2020 | 90.3 | 89.4 | 89.9 | x | 4 240.4 | |
| 2021 | 112.1 | 100.0 | 99.0 | x | 5 330.6 | |
| 2022 | 101.6 | 101.9 | 102.2 | x | 6 779.8 | |
| 2023 | 94.7 | 96.5 | 96.8 | x | 7 366.9 | |
| 2024 | 98.8 | 95.3 | 96.4 | x | 7 699.5 | |
| 2024 | January | 113.9 | 64.9 | 106.6 | 105.4 | 436.8 |
| February | 101.2 | 68.1 | 98.7 | 92.6 | 452.9 | |
| March | 96.4 | 93.6 | 99.3 | 100.6 | 625.9 | |
| April | 114.0 | 86.9 | 100.3 | 101.0 | 574.7 | |
| May | 106.4 | 95.6 | 96.7 | 96.4 | 636.1 | |
| June | 100.6 | 100.3 | 97.2 | 100.5 | 672.8 | |
| July | 93.5 | 99.0 | 94.1 | 96.8 | 663.6 | |
| August | 96.2 | 94.1 | 94.6 | 100.6 | 629.0 | |
| September | 90.3 | 104.1 | 89.6 | 94.7 | 699.1 | |
| October | 97.0 | 97.6 | 91.9 | 102.5 | 662.3 | |
| November | 96.0 | 110.1 | 93.0 | 101.2 | 753.3 | |
| December | 95.0 | 129.7 | 94.6 | 101.8 | 892.9 | |
| 2025 | January | 92.3 | 59.9 | 97.1 | 102.6 | 424.6 |
| February | 96.1 | 65.4 | 95.5 | 98.4 | 458.9 | |
| March | 95.6 | 89.5 | 95.2 | 99.6 | 631.5 | |
| April | 103.2 | 89.7 | 102.6 | 107.8 | 626.4 | |
| May | 106.8 | 102.0 | 103.5 | 100.9 | 718.0 | |
| June | 102.6 | 102.9 | 98.0 | 94.7 | 730.3 | |
| July | 104.9 | 103.9 | 98.8 | 100.8 | 735.5 | |
| January-July | 100.8 | 87.6 | 98.7 | x | 4325.1 | |