Residential building permits - annual data — Residential buildings; Building permits - m2 of useful floor area; unadjusted
Compare residential building permits - annual data — residential buildings; building permits - m2 of useful floor area; unadjusted across 27 countries or territories using one fixed 2025 Eurostat reference slice.
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Key Insights
- •27 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite Square metres per 1000 inhabitants observation in the fixed 2025 slice.
- •Malta has the highest published value (3087.6 Square metres per 1000 inhabitants).
- •Italy has the lowest published value (76.3 Square metres per 1000 inhabitants).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 648.0Square metres per 1000 inhabitants)
Percentile Profile
The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.
About This Statistic
Residential building permits - annual data; fixed slice cpa2_1: Residential buildings [CPA_F41001]; freq: Annual [A]; indic_bt: Building permits - m2 of useful floor area [BPRM_SQM]; s_adj: Unadjusted data (i.e. neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data) [NSA]; unit: Square metres per 1000 inhabitants [M2_THAB]
MapTheory uses only finite ISO-mapped observations from the fixed 2025 Eurostat slice recorded below. Aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicate observations, and every other year or dimension slice are excluded; MapTheory never imputes or interpolates missing countries.
Methodology
Residential building permits - annual data; fixed slice cpa2_1: Residential buildings [CPA_F41001]; freq: Annual [A]; indic_bt: Building permits - m2 of useful floor area [BPRM_SQM]; s_adj: Unadjusted data (i.e. neither seasonally adjusted nor calendar adjusted data) [NSA]; unit: Square metres per 1000 inhabitants [M2_THAB]
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Malta | 3,087.6Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 2 | Cyprus | 2,828.1Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 3 | Bulgaria | 918.4Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 4 | Ireland | 767.9Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 5 | Portugal | 749.7Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 6 | Luxembourg | 727.8Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 7 | Poland | 623.2Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 8 | Croatia | 592.4Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 9 | Belgium | 546.0Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 10 | Lithuania | 519.3Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 11 | Romania | 509.4Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 12 | Latvia | 489.6Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 13 | Netherlands | 464.4Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 14 | Estonia | 438.0Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 15 | Denmark | 432.8Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 16 | Slovenia | 422.1Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 17 | Austria | 412.8Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 18 | France | 401.5Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 19 | Sweden | 365.4Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 20 | Czech Republic | 330.5Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 21 | Hungary | 325.8Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 22 | Spain | 322.4Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 23 | Slovakia | 311.6Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 24 | Finland | 300.9Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 25 | Germany | 267.0Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 26 | Greece | 265.7Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
| 27 | Italy | 76.3Square metres per 1000 inhabitants |
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Data Source
This data comes from Eurostat, European Commission (2025).
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