{"id":389898,"date":"2025-06-09T11:54:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=389898"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:55:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:55:26","slug":"saudi-gdp-grows-3-4-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/saudi-gdp-grows-3-4-in-first-quarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi GDP grows 3.4% in first quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Saudi Arabia\u2019s gross domestic product grew by 3.4% in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year. According to data released on Monday (9) by the General Authority for Statistics (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stats.gov.sa\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GASTAT<\/a>), the expansion was 1.1% compared to the last quarter of last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to GASTAT, growth was driven by a 4.9% increase in non-oil activities and by a 3.2% increase in government activities. The oil sector\u2019s GDP recorded a decline of 0.5% in the first quarter of this year compared to the first three months of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe results also showed that non-oil activities are the main driver to the annual real GDP growth, contributing 2.8 percentage points,\u201d said the statistics authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sectors that recorded the greatest economic expansion were wholesale and retail trade, restaurants, and hotels. Compared to the same quarter last year, the expansion was 8.4%, and compared to the previous quarter, it was 0.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-mission-to-saudi-arabia-spurs-business\/\">Brazil\u2019s mission to Saudi Arabia spurs business<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-389895\">\u00a9Ashraf Amra \/Anadolu Agency via AFP<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year-on-year growth was driven by the non-oil sector of the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":389895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[53443,9756,11791,1964,9595],"class_list":{"0":"post-389898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-gastat","9":"tag-gdp-en","10":"tag-non-oil-sector","11":"tag-oil","12":"tag-saudi-arabia-en"},"wps_subtitle":"The year-on-year growth was driven by the non-oil sector of the economy.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}