High Level Summary of Statistics Trend Last update: Friday, April 25, 2008
Latest GDP trends
In the last year, the Scottish economy grew by 2.2 per cent, with growth in the fourth quarter of 2007 of 0.9 per cent. Over the year to the end of 2007 Q4, the Scottish service sector grew by 3.4 per cent, the production sector fell by 1.0 per cent and the construction sector fell by 1.7 per cent.
In the final quarter of 2007, the service sector grew by 1.3 per cent, the production sector declined by 0.2 per cent and the construction sector fell by 1.0 per cent.
The UK figures show that GDP rose by 2.9 per cent in 2007 and by 0.6 per cent over the final quarter of 2007.
In the year to the end of 2007 Q4, the UK experienced 3.7 per cent growth in services, 0.3 per cent growth in production and the construction sector grew by 2.4 per cent.
Source: Gross Domestic Product, Scottish Government
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