{"id":33223,"date":"2017-03-16T09:20:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T09:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/2016-gdp-up-to-rwf-6-618-billion\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T13:36:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T13:36:01","slug":"2016-gdp-up-to-rwf-6-618-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/2016-gdp-up-to-rwf-6-618-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 GDP up to Rwf 6,618 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2016 reached Rwf6, 618 billion from Rwf5,956 billion in the previous year, a 5.9% growth.}<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture grew by 4%, industries by 7% and service sector grew by 6%.  <\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Amb. Claver Gatete said that the economic growth in 2016 surpassed previous years.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the progress was close the target because the economy raised by 5.9% while the target was 6%. <\/p>\n<p>Gatete explained that hosting international meetings contributed a lot to the 2016 GDP especially hotels and restaurants. <\/p>\n<p>The Director of National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda,Yusuf Murangwa explained that agricultural growth was boosted by food crops in the first quarter at 5% though the latter declined in the second quarter growing by 1% due to drought and floods in some regions of the country.  <\/p>\n<p>Made in Rwanda also contributed a lot because textile and leather industries grew by 10%  ,food processing industries by 8% while construction materials including cement increased by 21%. <\/p>\n<p>Hotel and restaurants related services grew by 11% while transport related services rose by 8%.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18773 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/imgm0046-770e8.jpg\" alt=\"The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Amb. Claver Gatete said that the economic growth in 2016 surpassed previous years.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2016 reached Rwf6, 618 billion from Rwf5,956 billion in the previous year, a 5.9% growth.} Agriculture grew by 4%, industries by 7% and service sector grew by 6%. The Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Amb. Claver Gatete said that the economic growth in 2016 surpassed previous years. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33223"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33223"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}