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 Gross domestic product (B.1*g) at current prices (Year-on-year growth rate - Base 2011 - %)
Characteristic Description
Name Gross domestic product (B.1*g) at current prices (Year-on-year growth rate - Base 2011 - %); Quarterly
Regularity Quarterly
Source Statistics Portugal, Quarterly national accounts
First available period 1st Quarter 1996
Last available period 2nd Quarter 2019
Dimensions
  • Data reference period (Quarter)
  • Geographic localization (Portugal)
Concepts
  • GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT:  Final result of the production activity of resident producer units that can be defined according to production approach, expenditure approach and income approach.
  • ECONOMIC TERRITORY:  Territory that consists on: (a) the geographic territory administered by a government within which persons, goods, services and capital move freely; (b) any free zones, including bonded warehouses and factories under customs control; (c) the national air-space, territorial waters and the continental shelf lying in international waters, over which the country enjoys exclusive rights; (d) territorial enclaves (i.e. geographic territories situated in the rest of the world and used, under international treaties or agreements between States, by general government agencies of the country (embassies, consulates, military bases, scientific bases, etc.); (e) deposits of oil, natural gas, etc., in international waters outside the continental shelf of the country, worked by units resident in the territory as defined in the preceding subparagraphs.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  In extracommunity trade is the calender year during which the goods are imported or exported and is determined by the date of acceptance of the Single Administrative Document by Customs Authorities. In intracommunity trade is the calendar year during which the event that originates the intracommunity transaction occurred, i.e., for arrivals, at the time of receipt of the goods by the company and for dispatches, at the time the goods left the company.
Definition The year-on-year change compares the level of the variable between the current period and the same period a year earlier. In the face of a stable seasonal pattern, this rate of change is not affected by this type of swings. However, it may be influenced by effects in one (or both) of the periods compared.
Formule

Quotient of the value of the last period, by the value of the identical period of the previous year.

Measure unit (symbol) Percentage (%)
Power of 10  0
Observations Base 2011; Seasonally and calendar effects adjusted data.
Last update date 30/08/2019


information presented in 29/3/2024