Polish GDP grew 4.9% in 2022: stats office

The Polish economy grew 4.9 percent last year, the country’s statistics office has said in a preliminary estimate.

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The reading was 0.1 percentage point higher than expected by analysts, Poland's PAP news agency reported.

In 2021, Poland’s gross domestic product expanded by 6.8 percent, according to the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency.

According to the preliminary estimate, the increase of real gross domestic product (#GDP) in 2022 was 4,9% compared with 2021, against to an increase of 6.8% in 2021 (constant prices of the previous year).
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Poland’s central bank in November predicted that the country's GDP would grow 0.7 percent in 2023.

A Polish deputy finance minister has said that 2023 "will be a difficult year" for the country’s public finances, but added that “there are grounds for cautious optimism.”

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Source: PAP, IAR