All Key Economic Indicators for Last two Fiscal Year revised by National Accounts Committee

February 8, 2019 (MLN): The 100^th meeting of the National Accounts Committee to review the final and revised estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the years 2016-17 and 2017-18 respectively was held today, chaired by the Secretary, Statistics Division.

At this meeting, the provisional GDP estimates for the year 2017-18 and revised GDP estimates for the year 2016-17 presented in the 99thmeeting of the NAC were updated on the basis of latest available data.

The special meeting of the NAC was called to meet the requirement of Ministry of Planning, Development & Reform for revised GDP data for the year 2017-18 to provide them a baseline to work on 12thFive Year Plan (2018-23).

However, the GDP data presented before the meeting is subject to minor change in the next meeting of the NAC.

The final growth rate ford for the year 2016-17 has been estimated at 5.37 percent which was 5.38 percent in the revised estimates. The agriculture sector has improved from 2.07 percent to 2.18 percent whereas industry sector declined from 5.43 percent to 5.20 percent.

The final growth rate of services sector stands at 6.52 percent with slight improvement from 6.46 percent.

The revised growth rate of GDP for the year 2017-18 is5.22 percent which was provisionally estimated at 5.79 percent. The sectoral details are discussed below:

Agricultural Sector: The revised growth in the agriculture sector for 2017-18 has been estimated at 3.70 percent which was provisionally estimated at 3.81 percent. The crops sub sector has improved from 3.83 percent to 4.24 percent whereas livestock has slightly decreased from 3.76 percent to 3.62 percent.

Industrial Sector: The revised growth in industrial sector is 5.01 percent which was 5.80 percent in the provisional estimate. Mining & quarrying has improved from provisional growth of 3.04 percent to 3.89 percent whereas LSM, which is based on QIM, has declined from 6.13 percent to 5.01 percent. Electricity has declined from 1.84 percent to 1.15 percent. The revised growth in construction sector stands at 7.07 percent which was 9.13 percent in the provisional estimates.

Services Sector: The growth of services sector has declined from provisional estimates of 6.43 percent to 5.78 percent. The Wholesale & Retail Trade (WRT) has declined from 7.51 percent to 6.40 percent, Transport, Storage and Communication declined to 1.96 percent from provisional growth of 3.58 percent. Finance & Insurance has registered a decline from 6.13 percent to 5.40 percent. The General Government Services have declined from 11.42 percent to 9.58 percent whereas Other Private Services increased from 6.15 percent to 8.09 percent

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