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Section 4
Outcomes
Outcomes Section 4
Table
4.2.1
Trends in New House Building in European Countries, 2000-2002
Slovenia, the United Kingdom
housing output per 1,000
Figure
4.2.1
Trends in New House Building in European Countries,
2000
2000 2001 2002
Per 1,000 Per 1,000 Per 1,000
Country No. inhabitants No. inhabitants No. inhabitants
Austria Nav 6.6 45,850 5.6 41,914 5.2
Belgium 40,253 3.9 38,255 3.7 Nav Nav
Bulgaria 8,795 1.1 5,937 0.7 6,153 0.8
Cyprus Nav 7.6 Nav Nav Nav Nav
Czech Republic 25,207 2.5 24,758 2.4 27,291 Nav
Denmark Nav 2.9 Nav Nav 23,087 4.3
Finland Nav 6.3 Nav Nav Nav Nav
France 309,000 6.37 303,000 5.1 303,000 5.1
inhabitants stood at 3.9, 2.9, 3.1
and 3.1 dwellings respectively in
2000. In Germany 3.5 dwellings
per 1,000 inhabitants were built in
2002. Disaggregated data on
housing output in Greece during
2000, 2001 and 2002 are not
available. However, the
information that is available
indicates that housing output in
Latvia
Bulgaria
Lithuania
Romania
Sweden
Hungary
Poland
0.4
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.7
2.15
2.3
Germany Nav Nav Nav Nav 290,000 3.5
this country has averaged at
Slovakia
2.39
Greece Nav Nav Nav Nav Nav Nav
Hungary Nav 2.15 Nav Nav Nav Nav
Ireland 49,812 13.15 52,602 13.67 57,695 14.73
around 40,000 dwellings per
annum since 1998. This means
that output per 1,000 inhabitants
Czech Republic
Denmark
2.5
2.9
Latvia Nav 0.40 Nav Nav Nav Nav
Lithuania Nav 1.2 3,785 1.1 Nav Nav
Luxembourg 1,671 Nav 1,102 5.3 Nav Nav
Malta Nav Nav Nav Nav Nav Nav
was 3.7 dwellings in 2000, which
indicates that Greece also falls into
the moderate output category.
United Kingdom
Slovenia
Germany
3.1
3.1
3.5
Netherlands 70,650 4.5 Nav Nav 66,650 4.1
Poland 87,682 2.3 106,105 2.8 97,595 2.5
Portugal Nav 11.5 Nav 10.6 Nav Nav
Romania Nav 1.3 Nav Nav 27,722 1.3
Slovakia 12,931 2.39 10,321 1.9 14,213 2.6
Slovenia 6,228 3.1 Nav Nav Nav Nav
Spain Nav Nav Nav Nav 575,546 13.8
Sweden 16,800 1.70 19,500 2.2 19,300 Nav
United Kingdom 178,900 3.1 Nav Nav 175,500 Nav
Note: Output figures for Portugal refer to construction licences issued by county councils; output figures for Slovenia were calculated on the basis of the change in the total
number of dwellings in the country; output figures for Spain refer to site supervision endorsements. Data for Estonia, Italy and Turkey are not available.
housing output countries of Portugal, Spain and
Ireland, in several of the moderate output countries
housing construction rates have been falling in recent
years. Austria, for instance, experienced a housing
construction boom in the mid-1990s when more than
50,000 dwellings per annum were completed, but the
period since then has been distinguished by a slow but
consistent reduction in building rates, which fell to
45,850 dwellings in 2001 and 41,914 dwellings in
2002. In the Netherlands output per 1,000 inhabitants
France is one of the few ‘moderate output’ countries
where housing construction levels have consistently
risen in recent years. In 1995, 4.8 new dwellings per
1,000 inhabitants were constructed in this country, but
by 2000 this had risen to 6.37 per 1,000 inhabitants.
In Luxembourg housing output has risen in recent
years. After a period of falling or stagnant house
building rates between 1994 and 1998, housing output
rose again to over 3,067 units in 1999, although it
decreased to 1,671 housing units in 2001.
fell from 6.1 (or 93,850 units) in 1995 to 4.1 (66,650
units) in 2002. In Finland housing output has also
fallen, albeit less dramatically – from 6.3 dwellings per
1,000 inhabitants in 2000 to 6.2 dwellings per 1,000
inhabitants in 2003.
In the European context, Belgium, Denmark, Slovenia,
the United Kingdom and Germany could be
categorised as having relatively low levels of housing
output between 2000 and 2002. In Belgium, Denmark,
In several of the abovementioned
countries, however, housing output
has fallen significantly in recent
years. In this vein, Germany
experienced a building boom
during the first half of the 1990s
which saw some 600,000
dwellings completed in 1995
alone, but since then annual
housing output has fallen steadily
to the extent that just 290,000
dwellings were completed in 2002.
In Belgium housing output fell
from 47,456 units in 1997 (4.7 per
1,000 inhabitants) to 38,255
dwellings in 2001 (3.7 per 1,000).
Similarly in Greece, residential
output has fallen from 97,500
units in 1998 to 40,000 units per
annum currently. In the United
Greece
3.7
Belgium
3.9
Netherlands
4.5
Luxembourg
5.3
Finland
6.3
France
6.37
Austria
6.6
Cyprus
7.6
Portugal
11.5
Ireland
13.15
Spain
13.8
Very low output
Low output
Moderate output
High output
Note: all data are for 2000, with the exception of: Spain (2002 data), Luxembourg (2001 Data), Germany (2002)
data and Greece (average annual output since 1998). Data for Estonia, Italy and Turkey are not available.
Kingdom housing output has fallen steadily over the
last two decades, from 4.3 per 1,000 inhabitants (or
– house construction rates in this country at the
242,000 units) in 1980, to 3.6 per 1,000 (203,400
current time are around one-third of the rate during
units) in 1990, to 3.1 per 1,000 (178,900 units) in
the late 1960s which averaged 350,000 dwellings per
2000. Viewed over the long-term, however, the
annum.
reduction in UK housing output is even more dramatic
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