MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Ireland's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has increased by 26.3 percent in constant prices in 2015, official figures of the country's Central Statistics Office (CSO) showed Tuesday.
The expected rate of the country's GDP stood previously at 7.8 percent.
The Irish GDP grew from some 193 billion euro ($214 billion at the current exchange rates) in 2014 to 243 billion euro in 2015 at prices of 2014 and up to 255 billion euro at current prices, the CSO data revealed.
The Statistics Office added that country's Gross National Product (GNP) also increased by almost 19 percent at constant prices and 24 percent — at the current ones, on a year-on-year basis.
According to CSO, all the sectors of the country's economy showed growth from some 6 to 10 percent, with the most significant increase recorded in industry, including construction, and estimated at 87.3 percent.
