Table 2 Expenditure-based GDP Estimates
Year-on-year growth rates, first quarter of 1997 to second quarter of 1999

% change over same period of the preceding year

  Expenditure Components of GDP
Gross
Domestic
Product
  Private
consumption
expenditure
Government
consumption
expenditure
Gross domestic fixed
capital formation

Exports
of
goods
Imports
of
goods
Exports
of
services
Imports
of
services
      Total   of which:
        Construction Machinery
and
equipment

At Current Market Prices

Year/quarter

 
1997   10.6 9.0 19.7 14.3 11.8 4.2 5.2 0.7 5.5 11.2
1998   -3.9 3.8 -12.8 3.7 -11.7 -7.4 -11.5 -10.3 -2.1 -4.3
                       
1997 1 8.8 11.4 21.8 9.9 19.8 2.2 4.3 7.8 7.3 12.2
  2 13.0 13.1 21.2 15.4 9.5 4.2 4.8 5.3 1.9 13.9
  3 14.6 6.3 23.7 21.3 6.4 2.6 5.7 -2.1 7.7 12.4
  4 6.6 5.6 13.3 11.6 12.7 7.4 5.8 -6.9 4.8 6.8
                       
1998 1 1.0 7.3 0.4 15.2 -9.5 -1.0 -5.2 -12.9 -0.1 1.5
  2 -2.0 -2.9 -2.4 16.1 1.2 -3.1 -6.2 -15.5 0.1 -3.4
  3 -6.6 6.2 -20.7 -2.4 -15.0 -10.3 -15.5 -8.8 -5.4 -6.8
  4 -7.5 4.9 -26.4 -11.6 -23.6 -13.6 -18.2 -4.2 -2.6 -7.8
                       
1999 1 -5.1 6.6 -24.8 -9.0 -28.6 -9.0 -13.9 -3.3 -1.2 -6.7
  2 -2.5 2.3 -28.4 -18.4 -29.0 -5.9 -11.3 -0.4 -1.5 -4.7
                       
At Constant (1990) Market Prices

Year/quarter

                       
1997  

6.2

2.4

12.7

4.7

13.1

6.1

7.2

-0.1

4.0

5.0

1998  

-6.7

0.8

-6.4

-4.6

-6.6

-4.3

-7.2

-6.6

-0.6

-5.1

                       
1997 1

4.0

4.6

16.6

1.5

23.8

4.0

6.4

5.4

4.5

5.4

  2

8.2

5.6

13.3

6.4

11.3

6.2

6.9

3.0

0.2

6.4

  3

10.6

-0.1

11.9

10.6

5.6

4.4

7.1

-2.9

6.3

5.8

  4

2.4

-0.4

9.7

1.4

13.7

9.6

8.2

-5.0

4.9

2.5

                       
1998 1

-2.5

2.1

-0.8

5.3

-6.3

1.4

-1.7

-10.1

1.2

-2.6

  2

-5.0

-5.3

5.4

5.9

8.5

-0.5

-1.8

-11.6

1.6

-5.1

  3

-9.9

3.8

-9.8

-10.8

-7.1

-7.0

-10.5

-4.6

-2.7

-6.9

  4

-9.0

2.5

-19.2

-17.4

-21.2

-9.6

-13.5

-0.3

-2.0

-5.6

                       
1999 1

-4.4

3.9

-22.2

-11.8

-29.8

-4.8

-10.3

0.6

-0.8

-3.2

  2

1.3

3.5

-26.4

-19.9

-28.3

-2.0

-7.9

1.7

-0.6

0.7

Last Updated: 21 September 1999