Hungary ranks first, with a 5.2% GDP growth, and Poland ranks third with 4.7%.
Compared with the same quarter of the previous year, seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 1.2% in the euro area and by 1.5% in the EU28 in the first quarter of 2019, after +1.2% and +1.5% respectively in the previous quarter.
Almost all EU countries reported annual growths in the first part of the year and Italy is the only country which reported a 0.1% decrease.
Seasonally adjusted GDP rose by 0.4% in the euro area (EA19) and by 0.5% in the EU28 during the first quarter of 2019, compared with the previous quarter. Among Member States for which data are available for the first quarter of 2019, Croatia (+1.8%) recorded the highest growth compared with the previous quarter, followed by Hungary and Poland (both +1.5%) and by Romania (1.3%). A decrease was observed in Latvia (-0.1%), Eurostat data also show.
Romania’s gross domestic product grew 5% in the first quarter compared with the same period of 2018, driven mainly by consumption, a second reading by the country’s statistics board showed Thursday. In seasonally adjusted data, first-quarter GDP growth stood at 5.1%. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2018, first-quarter GDP grew 1.3% in real terms, the data showed.