Entities from sections: manufacturing, accommodation and food services as well as financial and insurance activities evaluate general business climate indicator in February worse than one month ago.

In January 2020 there were more dwellings completed than the year before. The number of dwellings in which construction has begun also increased, whereas the number of dwellings for which permits have been granted or which have been registered with a construction project decreased.

According to preliminary data construction and assembly production (in constant prices) carried out domestically by construction enterprises employing more than 9 persons was in January 2020 by 6.5% higher than a year before (against an increase by 3.2% the year before) and by 57.3% lower compared with December 2019 (against a decrease by 61.2% the year before).

In January 2020 retail sales at constant prices were by 3.4% higher than the year before (against a growth of 6.1% in January 2019). Compared with December 2019 retail sales decreased by 20.6%.

Price of one square meter of usable floor space of a residential building in the fourth quarter of 2019 was PLN 4597.

At the end of 2019, there were 456 338 entities of the national economy registered, i.e. by 5.2% more than a year before. In the total number of entities, natural persons conducting economic activity prevailed (55.6%). The majority of entities (19.4%) conducted professional, scientific and technical activities, however the largest increase as compared to 2018 was recorded in the communication and information section (by 9.6%).