{"id":314178,"date":"2017-04-26T14:43:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=314178"},"modified":"2017-04-26T14:43:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T14:43:21","slug":"gss-confirms-2016-gdp-at-3-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/gss-confirms-2016-gdp-at-3-5\/","title":{"rendered":"GSS confirms 2016 GDP at 3.5%"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ghana Statistical Service(GSS) has announced that provisional Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for 2016 was 3.5 percent.<\/p>\n
According to the service, the value of the GDP in the period represents of GHS36.0 billion.<\/p>\n
President Nana Akufo-Addo during the State of the Nation Address announced that Ghana missed almost all the fiscal targets set by the International Monetary Fund(IMF),\u00a0by growing below 3.6 percent.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a press conference, the Acting Government Statistician Mr. Baah Wadieh disclosed that the Services sector recorded the highest growth of 5.7 percent.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Agriculture we have a growth rate of 3.0 percent, for industry we have -1.4 percent and for services we recorded a growth rate of 5.7 percent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n