Building Permits

Europe Ranking

Source: IMF

Current Rank	Country	Value	Latest Reading	Previous Rank	Previous Value

1	United Kingdom	54540	6-2022	1	46110
2	France	34600	3-2023	2	33000
3	Poland	20242	3-2023	3	19982
4 ↑	Germany	13018	12-2022	5	14038
5 ↑	Austria	12931	12-2022	6	13793
6 ↓	Italy	12714	9-2022	4	17404
7	Bulgaria	8619	3-2023	7	10203
8	Ukraine	8402	9-2018	8	7608
9	Slovakia	4514	12-2022	9	4609
10	Belgium	3789	12-2022	10	4320
11 ↑	Romania	3346	3-2023	12	2691
12 ↑	Greece	2494	12-2022	16	2122
13 ↑	Czech Republic	2367	3-2023	14	2261
14 ↑	Portugal	2342	3-2023	21	1509
15 ↓	Norway	2221	3-2023	13	2398
16 ↓	Denmark	2207	3-2023	11	3159
17 ↑	Ireland	1734	3-2023	20	1608
18 ↓	Croatia	1722	3-2023	15	2201
19 ↓	Lithuania	1623	3-2023	18	1772
20 ↓	Serbia	1620	3-2023	19	1629
21 ↑	Spain	1498	7-2021	23	1425
22 ↑	Netherlands	1362	3-2023	24	1299
23 ↓	Estonia	1330	3-2023	17	1927
24 ↓	Sweden	1199	3-2023	22	1453
25 ↑	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1031	3-2023	28	665
26	Cyprus	863	12-2022	26	760
27 ↓	Hungary	768	3-2023	25	903
28 ↓	Latvia	719	3-2023	27	701
29 ↑	Macedonia	415	3-2023	32	307
30 ↓	Finland	409	3-2023	29	368
31	Albania	341	3-2023	31	343
32 ↓	Slovenia	242	3-2023	30	355
33	Luxembourg	128	9-2022	33	123
34	Montenegro	93	3-2023	34	114

Building permits are authorizations granted by a government or another regulatory body before the construction of a new building can legally occur.