{"id":35380,"date":"2017-07-05T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-economy-grows-by-1-7-in-quarter-one\/"},"modified":"2017-07-07T08:27:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T08:27:56","slug":"rwanda-economy-grows-by-1-7-in-quarter-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-economy-grows-by-1-7-in-quarter-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda economy grows by 1.7% in quarter one, services sector leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 1.7 percent in the first quarter of 2017 compared with the same period in 2016, the National Institute of Statistics Rwanda has revealed in a report released today.  The report indicates an estimated GDP growth of Rwf1,817 billion at current market prices; i.e 1.7 % up from Rwf 1,557 billion in the same quarter of the previous year.<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>The services sector which grew by 4% accounted for 46 percent of GDP, while agriculture which grew by 3% contributed 32 percent of the GDP, the equivalent of Rwf 578 billion.  The industrial sector contributed 15 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The growth in the services sector, NISR has said, is attributed to the growth in hotels and restaurants which grew by 17%, real estate which grew by 8%, administrative and support activities which grew by 25%.<\/p>\n<p>Within industry, manufacturing activities increased by 7 percent boosted by food processing activities which increased by 13 percent and manufacturing of chemicals, rubber and plastic activities which grew by 28 percent. Construction activities declined by 7 percent.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21129 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/plo-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Director General of he National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR), Yusuf Murangwa\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda&#8217;s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 1.7 percent in the first quarter of 2017 compared with the same period in 2016, the National Institute of Statistics Rwanda has revealed in a report released today. The report indicates an estimated GDP growth of Rwf1,817 billion at current market prices; i.e 1.7 % up from Rwf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-homehighlights","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\/35380","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35380"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35380"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}