Industrial production increased a working-day adjusted 0.5% year-on-year in December, following a 0.4% rise in November. Manufacturing output gained 1% yearly in December. Mining and quarrying output decreased 12.5% and electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning fell 0.3%. On a monthly basis, industrial production rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2% in December. Industrial new orders increased 11.2% year-on-year in December.

In the fourth quarter, industrial production rose 3.8% quarterly and grew 0.8% yearly. In 2020, industrial production fell 8.0%. In a separate statement the Prague-based statistics agency said that the country's construction output decreased a working-day adjusted 12.4% annually in December. On a seasonally adjusted basis, the construction output declined 2% monthly in December. In the January-December period of 2020, construction output fell 7.7%.