May 17 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 4.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2022, compared to an annual increase of 5.2% in the final quarter of 2021, the statistical office said in a flash estimate on Tuesday.
On a quarterly comparison basis, Bulgaria's GDP grew by 1% in the first three months of the current year, after a 1% quarterly rise in the October-December period, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said, citing seasonally adjusted data.
Bulgaria's first-quarter GDP amounted to a total of 30.4 billion levs ($16.3 billion/15.5 billion euro) at current prices.
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)