The growth rate of Slovak economy slowed further in the fourth quarter of last year. The Statistics Office reported that Slovakia's real GDP grew by 2.5 percent y-o-y, a reduction of 0.2 percentage points from its flash estimate made in mid-February. The growth in real GDP for all of 2008 was 6.4 percent with total GDP reaching €67.33 billion. Economic growth had been 6.6 percent in the third quarter, the SITA newswire wrote.
In current prices the y-o-y growth of GDP was 4.7 percent in the last quarter of 2008 and 9.5 percent for the whole of 2008. Slovakia generated GDP of €17.35 billion in the fourth quarter of 2008. The overall growth in GDP reflected growth in domestic demand by 2.9 percent and a decrease in foreign demand by 7.8 percent. SITA
Compiled by Zuzana Vilikovská from press reports
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