In the fourth quarter, the GDP was up 0.5% compared with the previous quarter in seasonally-adjusted data, the statistics reading said.
Compared with the same period of 2013, the fourth-quarter GDP was up 2.5% in seasonally-adjusted data and 2.6% higher in non-adjusted data.
The statistics office also revised seasonally-adjusted growth for previous quarters, following new data for 2013. Therefore, the third-quarter GDP is now estimated to be 2.2% higher than the previous quarter, from 1.8% previously seen, while the growth estimate for the first quarter compared with the fourth quarter of 2013 was slashed to 0.3% from 0.8%. Data for the second quarter of 2014 is unchanged, showing a 0.4% contraction compared with the previous three-month period.