Sept 4 (Reuters) - Slovak real gross domestic product rose
by 9.4 percent, year-on-year, in the second quarter of 2007,
accelerating from 9.0...
...percent in the first three months of 2007,
the Slovak Statistics Office said in Tuesday.
The second-quarter figure was revised slightly upwards from
the flash estimate of 9.2 percent growth the Statistics Office
reported in August.
SLOVAK REAL GDP Q2/07 Q1/07 Q2/06 FY/06
(pct change yr/yr) +9.4 +9.0 +6.7 +8.3
Final consumption
Household +7.3 +6.5 +5.9 +6.3
Government +1.1 +2.4 +6.6 +4.1
Gross fixed capital
formation +6.3 +7.7 +3.6 +7.3
Foreign trade balance
exports of goods
and services +18.0 +24.1 +18.1 +20.7
imports of goods
and services +14.1 +17.7 +14.0 +17.8
NOTE: The Statistics Office said in a statement it had
maintained its forecast of 8.8 percent real GDP growth for
full-year 2007.
It added that it saw headline inflation of 2.3 percent at
the end of 2007, slightly lower than the previous forecast of
2.6 percent.
(Reporting by Peter Laca in Bratislava)
Keywords: SLOVAKIA GROWTH/