The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has published its latest annual web report, Tall Buildings in 2020, with plenty of facts and figures on the state of the skyscraper construction industry during a year full of pandemic-related uncertainty.

With 106 completions of buildings 200 meters and taller in 2020, the number constitutes a 20-percent decline compared to 133 completions in 2019.

While the two tallest buildings completed in 2020 are in New York City (Central Park Tower and One Vanderbilt), the United States ranks with 10 completed tall buildings only a distant third in both total number of completions as well as sum of heights compared to China (56 completions) and the United Arab Emirates (12 completions, all in Dubai).

The ten tallest buildings completed in 2020 are:

1. Central Park Tower, New York City, United States,
   98 floors, 472 m / 1,550 ft
   Design Architect: Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
2. One Vanderbilt, New York City, United States,
   59 floors, 427 m / 1,401 ft
   Design Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF)
3. Nanning China Resources Tower, Nanning, China,
   87 floors, 403 m / 1,321 ft
   Design Architect: Goettsch Partners
4. Guiyang International Financial Center T1, Guiyang, China,
   79 floors, 401 m / 1,316 ft
   Design of Record: Architectural Design and Research Institute of South China University of Technology
5. Shum Yip Upperhills Tower 1, Shenzhen, China,
   80 floor, 388 m / 1,273 ft
   Design Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
6. St. Regis Chicago, Chicago, United States,
   101 floors, 363 m / 1,191 ft
   Design Architect: Studio Gang
7. NEVA TOWERS 2, Moscow, Russia,
   79 floors, 345 m / 1,132 ft
   Design Architect: FXCollaborative, HOK
8. Heartland 66 Office Tower, Wuhan, China
   60 floors, 339 m / 1,112 ft
   Design Architect: Aedas
9. Parc1 Tower I, Seoul, South Korea,
   68 floors, 338 m / 1,109 ft
   Design Architect: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
10. Hengqin International Finance Center, Zhuhai, China
    69 floors, 338 m / 1,108 ft
    Design Architect: Aedas