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  • Armenia posts 13.6% GDP growth in January-August

    ARMENPRESS

    ARMENIA POSTS 13.6 PERCENT GDP GROWTH IN
    JANUARY-AUGUST

    YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 20, ARMENPRESS: Armenia's
    economic growth in January-August grew 13.6 percent
    amounting, in terms of money, to 1.6 trillion Drams,
    according the chief of the National Statistical
    Service Stepan Mnatsakanian.
    He said today this was an unprecedented GDP growth
    in just eight months. Armenia's industrial output rose
    to 446.4 billion Drams, a 1.7 percent growth from a
    year ago. Power production not counted the growth was
    369 billion Drams.
    Armenia's power plants produced in the reported
    time 4.03 billion kilowatt/hours electricity, 1.6
    percent down from a year ago. Despite late spring and
    early summer flooding agricultural GDP grew 7.6
    percent to 329 billion Drams.
    Construction accounted for the biggest growth-19.6
    percent. A total of 328 billion Drams were invested in
    this sector.
    Retail trade grew 11 percent to 510 billion Drams.
    Services to population rose 20 percent to 335 billion
    Drams. Population income rose to 1.2 trillion Drams
    and expenditures to 1.6 billion Drams. The inflation
    rate was 3.9 percent.
    By the end of August there were 82,000 officially
    registered unemployed people, down 8 percent from a
    year ago.
    Average wages rose 21.5 percent to 73.630 Drams (
    $216). Wages in public salary rose to 54,000 Drams and
    to 92,000 in public sector.
    Armenia's foreign trade rose nearly 40 percent to
    $2.660 billion. Exports rose 23 percent to $734
    million and imports rose 47 percent to $1.926 billion.
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