Construction Gross Value as a Percentage of GDP Is Near All Time Highs! - Updated as of 1st Qtr 2018
Last May 4, 2015,
we noted that Construction Gross Value (Construction GV) at 11.21% as
of the year-end 2014 was already well above its historical average of
9.59% of GDP since 1990. This ratio has run at an above average rate
since 2009 and has already eaten away at the "cumulative underhang" or
underinvestment in construction that has taken place since 2004, when
the excessive investment in construction that took place in the mid to
late 1990's was being absorbed.
As of the 1st
Qtr of 2018, Construction GV as a percentage of GDP now stands higher at
12.08% of GDP - down from an all-time high of 12.61% posted in 2016. But the real
story is that Cumulative Construction GV has gone well above equilibrium
and now stands at 6.0% above equilibrium. Given all the planned new projects that are already at
the execution stage, the momentum in Construction Investment will
continue.
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