Economic Growth
(asked on 21st December 2017) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what were (1) the International Monetary Fund predictions of the UK growth rate, and (2) the actual growth rate, over the last five years.
This question was answered on 9th January 2018
Forecasts for UK GDP growth published in the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook over the last five years are summarised in the table below.
| GDP growth (%) | |||||
2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | ||
Growth rate | 2.1 | 3.1 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
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IMF forecasts | Apr 2013 | 0.7 | 1.5 |
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Oct 2013 | 1.4 | 1.9 |
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Apr 2014 |
| 2.9 | 2.5 |
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Oct 2014 |
| 3.2 | 2.7 |
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Apr 2015 |
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| 2.7 | 2.3 |
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Oct 2015 |
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| 2.5 | 2.2 |
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Apr 2016 |
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| 1.9 | 2.2 | |
Oct 2016 |
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| 1.8 | 1.1 | |
Apr 2017 |
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| 2.0 | |
Oct 2017 |
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| 1.7 | |