The Spanish economic system grew by 5.5% in 2022


The GDP superior by 0.2% within the fourth quarter of final yr The year-on-year GDP minimize its development by greater than two factors, as much as 2.7%, in comparison with 4.8% within the earlier quarter The Government highlights that development has occurred ” in a world context of nice uncertainty”

The Spanish economic system grew by 5.5% in 2022, the identical as in 2021, after recording a quarterly rebound of 0.2% within the final quarter of the yr, the identical share as within the earlier quarter, based on advance information from National Accounts revealed this Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

In this fashion, the Spanish economic system chained its second consecutive annual development in 2022 after the 5.5% improve it registered in 2021 and which meant a return to constructive charges after the historic drop in GDP of 11.3% attributable to the irruption of the coronavirus.

The First Vice President of the Government and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, Nadia Calviño, had already warned that the Executive’s forecast was going to fall quick and that development in 2022 could be above 5%.

His Department highlighted this Friday that the 5.5% development in 2022 has been achieved “in a world context of nice uncertainty”, marked by the implications of Russia’s warfare in Ukraine, which exhibits the “nice solidity and resilience of the Spanish economic system.

Private consumption elevated by 4%

National demand contributed 2.8 factors to GDP development in 2022, a determine 2.4 factors decrease than that of 2021, whereas exterior demand contributed 2.6 factors, 2.3 factors above the earlier yr, “due to the dynamism of exports”, based on Economía.

At present costs, GDP for 2022 stood at 1,328,922 million euros, 10.1% greater than in 2021. “Spain has virtually recovered the extent of GDP previous to the pandemic,” underlines the Department headed by Nadia Calviño .

slowdown within the fourth quarter

In the interannual charge, GDP grew by 2.7% within the fourth quarter, which is 2.1 factors lower than within the earlier quarter (4.8%), due, above all, to a decrease contribution from home demand.

In any case, the INE explains that for numerous causes associated to the supply calendar of a number of the sources used within the final quarter of the yr, the quantity of data superior within the information preview this Friday has been lower than on earlier events. .

This reality, he specifies, along with the problem {that a} change within the state of affairs such because the Covid disaster has brought about for statistical measurement, “makes it foreseeable that future revisions of the outcomes revealed right this moment could also be of a higher magnitude than standard”. .

The INE advance information is ready with the data accessible as much as November normally, though it has additionally included estimates of indicators for the month of December primarily based on administrative information and different extra sources.