Organization of developed countries OECD finds Spain among four neighboring countries that have yet to recover their pre-pandemic GDP level – and Germany, the UK and the Czech Republic-, although he estimates that he is only 0.2 points away from achieving it. This is evident from the OECD’s quarterly statistics on gross domestic product released this Tuesday, which estimates the GDP level for the country group to be 4.5% above the end of 2019. The union is already 3.1% above the pre-pandemic level and the eurozone is 2.5 above this bar. Germany 0.1 points away from being equal to pre-pandemic GDP; United Kingdom to 0.5 points and Czech Republicto 0.9 points.
On the other hand, the report OECD As published this Tuesday, Spain is among the countries with slightly above-average growth in the first quarter of 2022: 0.5% in the case of Spain or 0% in the euro area, compared to averages of 0.4% in the OECD and 0.2% in the European Union. ,one.
Overall, the bulletin notes that there was a slight acceleration in growth for OECD countries as a whole in the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 0.4% compared to 0.2% in the fourth quarter of 2022. Among the economies with the highest quarterly growth, the OECD, Poland (3.9%), Portugal (1.60%) or Greece (1.37%). Parallel to the 0.5% growth in Spain, Italy anyone Southwell. On the other hand, Ireland posted 2.72% lag on quarterly basis. GermanyNia rose 0.05% (after the previous 0.5% drop) and France barely rose 0.18%.
In the inter-year rate of change of GDP in the first quarter of 2023 (compared to the same period in 2022), Spain recorded a 3.8% change, which according to the Government is the highest GDP rate among the major OECD economies (39 countries surveyed by the international organization). fifth country).