Housing construction

The number of dwellings whose construction was completed in the year, whole country. A dwelling here is one home — a flat in a block or a detached house — so a block finished in one year adds as many dwellings as it holds. A dwelling belongs to the year its construction was finished, not the year it was begun, permitted or sold. The second table is the number of new residential buildings completed in the year: a building may hold one dwelling or a hundred, so these are two figures about different things and neither is divided by the other here. This is construction volume, not price — the housing price index is a separate figure.

The published series begins in 1995; there is no earlier data here, and the years before it are not part of it.

Milestones

New residential buildings

2000: 1,991 → 2025: 7,110

Method and caveats

Statistics Lithuania’s indicator database: the number of dwellings completed (table S8R047) and the number of new residential buildings completed (table S8R715), both for the whole country and for all residential buildings in the classification of types of construction (CC). The dwellings series is annual and gap-free from 1995 to 2025; the buildings series begins in 2000, because the same table’s cells for 1995–1999 are empty for buildings. Statistics Lithuania publishes the same dwelling counts in four cuts — by territory, by type of building, by number of rooms and by type of investor — and they agree to the unit: in 2010 all four read 3,667 and in 2025 all four read 12,339. The single exception across the whole overlap is 1999, where the cut by type of building reads 4,254 against the 4,364 of the territorial cut used here; the difference is left standing and is not explained. For buildings, the territorial and type-of-building cuts agree in 2000, 2022 and 2025, and differ by two in 2002 and 2008. No other body publishes this figure: Eurostat carries building permits (table sts_cobp_a) and, for completed dwellings, only census counts by period of construction, which is a different measurement altogether (checked 12 August 2026). The Soviet-era and interwar archive tables are no help either: “Pastatyta butų” (SSST1403R011) answers with an empty payload, and the interwar tables count the stock of buildings at a census rather than a year’s construction. The source calls the buildings series “new” and does not qualify the dwellings one, so neither figure is a part of the other and their ratio is not “dwellings per building”.