OECD Quarterly National Accounts - Fourth Quarter 2005

GDP in the OECD area rose by 0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2005

Print the entire news release (pdf)

20/02/2006 - According to preliminary estimates, gross domestic product (GDP) in the OECD area rose by 0.5% in the fourth quarter of 2005, lower than in the three previous quarters.

In the United States quarterly GDP grew by 0.3% in the fourth quarter of 2005, noticeably less than the average 0.9% growth recorded over the previous eight quarters. Japan's quarterly GDP rose strongly by 1.4%, following robust growth earlier in 2005. GDP in the Euro area rose by 0.3%, less than the growth of 0.6% recorded in the previous quarter. 

Among the Major Seven countries quarterly GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2005 varied from 0.0% in Germany to 1.4% in Japan...

...etc.

The next issue of this press release is scheduled for the fourth week of May 2006.

For further information, journalists are invited to contact the OECD's Media Relations Division on (33) 1 45 24 97 00 or news.contact@oecd.org; others should contact the Statistics Directorate on stat.contact@oecd.org.

Link to previous news releases