Table 1 Expenditure-based GDP
first quarter of 1997 to third quarter of 1999

  GDP at Current
Market Prices 
GDP at Constant (1990)
Market Prices 
Year/quarter  HK$ Mn   % change over same
period of the
preceding year

 HK$ Mn

  % change over same 
period of the 
preceding year
quarter-to-quarter
% change in the
seasonally adjusted GDP

1997   1,324,697   11.1   829,044   5.0   N.A.  
1998   1,267,442   -4.3   786,450   -5.1   N.A.  
 
1997 1 302,157   12.3   194,342   5.4   1.9  
  2 327,584   13.9   201,078   6.4   1.7  
  3 346,932   12.3   219,073   5.8   0.5  
  4 348,025   6.7   214,552   2.5   -1.8  
 
1998 1 306,229   1.3   189,227   -2.6   -2.9  
  2 315,783   -3.6   190,781   -5.1   -1.1  
  3 323,497   -6.8   203,863   -6.9   -1.4  
  4 321,934   -7.5   202,579   -5.6   -0.5  
 
1999 1 286,496   -6.4   183,608   -3.0   *  
  2 302,071   -4.3   192,873   1.1   3.2  
  3 316,538   -2.2   212,936   4.5   1.7  

* Less than 0.05%

Last Updated: 21 December 1999