Viet Nam's GDP accelerates to 7.72% growth in second quarter
VGP – Viet Nam's GDP accelerated to 7.72 percent growth in the second quarter from 5.03 percent in the previous quarter, reported the General Statistics Office (GSO).
June 29, 2022 9:26 AM GMT+7
This is the fastest growth pace in the second quarter from 2011-2021, according to the GSO.
With this growth rate, the Southeast Asian country's GDP expanded 6.42 percent in the first six months this year compared to 2.04 percent and 5.74 percent of the same period in 2020 and 2021, respectively.
Industry and construction jumped by 7.70 percent on year, contributing 48.33 percent to the GDP growth while the service and agriculture-forestry-aquaculture respectively contributed 46.60 percent and 5.07 percent./.
