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National Accounts (Revised): Year ended March 2007


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Highlights


  • Current price gross domestic product (GDP) increased 5.5 percent for the year ended March 2007, following rises of 7.2 and 5.1 percent in 2005 and 2006, respectively.

 

  • Compensation of employees rose by 8.1 percent, while gross operating surplus rose 2.9 percent for the year ended March 2007. 

 

  • Detailed industry GDP estimates are now available from 1972 to 2005.

 

  • Economic activity increased across all industry groups for the year ended March 2005.  

  • Service industries made the largest contribution to economic growth for the year ended March 2005.

 

                                                           
Geoff Bascand
Government Statistician
1 April 2008
ISSN 1178-0568

 

 



  National Accounts (Revised): Year ended March 2007 (pdf)



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