35/01 STATISTIQUES EN BREF - ECONOMIE ET FINANCES

Eurostat

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THE GDP OF THE CANDIDATE COUNTRIES ■" ' ' ■ ■ · '' ':< Jarko Pasanen Figures for the first quarter of 2001 In this publication, Eurostat presents for the Candidate Countries (CCs), the in focus latest quarterly GDP growth rates as well as annual GDP figures for the year 2000. The CCs comprise Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Turkey. The most recent data published relate to the first quarter ECONOMY AND of 2001. FINANCE Table 1 (overleaf) illustrates the quarterly growth figures back to the fourth < quarter of 1999. The trend for the CCs as a whole is shown below in Figure 1, along with a comparison against the EU-15. THEME 2 - 35/2001 The growth rates are based on changes between corresponding quarters in successive years. In the first quarter of 2001, all CCs continued to record NATIONAL ACCOUNTS positive growth rates apart from Turkey, whose growth plummeted from +8.3% to -1.9%. A general contraction of growth was evident, however, as Contents seven of the twelve CCs for whom quarterly data are published recorded lower rates than in the final quarter of 2000. Romania displayed the greatest improvement in growth (1.3% to 4.8%) while Latvia enjoyed the highest Annual and quarterly GDP quarterly growth rate (8.2%). growth rates 2 The combined growth rate of the CC-11 group remained constant, at 3.

Sujets

• Produit intérieur brut
• Economic growth
• Eastern Europe
• Baltic states
• Turquía
• Cyprus
• Malta
• Member state of the European Union
• Economic statistics
• Economie gestion

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• Langue: English
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