GUS publishes 2004 data on growth, inflation, investment and exports

Although this is considerably better than 2003, it is still 0.1-0.2% below expectations. The GDP growth was the highest for seven years, despite the slow down in the second half of the year when GDP growth fell from 6.9% in Q1 to 4.1% in Q4. The rate of inflation amounted to 3.5% as compared to the anticipated rate of 2%.