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OECD: GDP Growth Accelerates to 1.6% in Q2 2021

GDP still below pre-pandemic levels, despite accelerating growth of 1.6% in Q2, 2021

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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in August 2021 announced that the Gross domestic product (GDP) of the OECD area remains below pre-pandemic levels, despite increasing growth in the second quarter of 2021, by 1.6% from 0.6% in the previous quarter, according to provisional estimates.

The United Kingdom recorded the strongest growth (4.8% from minus 1.6% in the previous quarter), followed by Italy (2.7% from 0.2% in the previous quarter). In both the United States and Germany, GDP grew by 1.6%, compared with 1.5% and minus 2.0% respectively in the previous quarter. In France and Japan GDP grew by 0.9% and 0.3% respectively, after 0.0%, and minus 0.9% in the previous quarter. Canada recorded a growth rate of 0.6%, down from 1.4% in the previous quarter.

In the euro area and the European Union GDP growth turned positive in the second quarter of 2021, to 2.0% and 1.9% respectively, after declines by (minus) 0.3% and (minus) 0.1% in the previous quarter.

When comparing economic activity in the second quarter of 2021 with pre-pandemic levels (Q4-2019), GDP still lags behind for the OECD area as a whole (minus 0.7%). Among the largest economies, the United Kingdom experienced the largest gap (minus 4.4%), followed by Italy (minus 3.8%), France and Germany (both at minus 3.3%). The United States is the only major economy that already returned to pre-pandemic levels in the second quarter of 2021, with GDP exceeding the pre-pandemic level by 0.8%.

 

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