GDP in Nominal Terms Decreased 9%
The State Statistics Committee published the main macroeconomic indicators for the first five months of this year, according to which, the gross domestic product (GDP) in Azerbaijan's economy amounted to 21 billion 344.3 million manats, which in comparable prices was by 5.3% more than in the same period of 2014. It is noteworthy that, in current prices, GDP fell by around 2.1 billion manats or 9%, which affects in GDP per capita.
According to the SSC, the non-oil sector produced 14.1 billion mantas of added value, which in comparable prices was 7.6% more compared to the first five months of last year. In the oil sector the GDP increased by 2.3%. The share of non-oil sector in the GDP reached 66.1%, up 11.4% to January-May 2014.
Note that the share of private sector in GDP in 2014 was 81.9%. ---08D
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