The estimated real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate amounted to 12% for August 2024 compared to previous year and the average real GDP growth for January-August 2024 equaled 10%, reads the report of GeoStat.

In August 2024, compared to the same period of the previous year, the estimated real growth in following activities contributed significantly: Professional, scientific and technical activities, Information and communication, Construction, Financial and insurance activities, Real estate activities, Trade.

Decline was registered in Energy sector.

Geostat produces monthly rapid estimates of real GDP growth rate using administrative data on VAT taxpayers’ turnover, fiscal and monetary statistics. Compilation of rapid estimates is an internationally adopted practice to obtain preliminary monthly growth rate of real GDP. For those sectors, where preliminary monthly data do not exist, estimations are based on the data for previous periods. Furthermore, the data on VAT taxpayers’ turnover for the previous months may be updated on a monthly basis, resulting in corresponding adjustments of real GDP growth rate estimates.