Hong Kong's economic growth accelerated in the third quarter on robust domestic demand, data from the Census and Statistics Department showed Friday.
Gross domestic product expanded 1.9 percent in the third quarter from prior year, faster than the 1.7 percent growth registered in the second quarter.
Quarter-on-quarter, GDP grew 0.6 percent, but slower than the preceding quarter's 1.5 percent expansion.
The actual GDP growth outturn of 1.4 percent in the first three quarters broadly matched the government's earlier expectation. The real GDP growth for 2016 as a whole was forecast at 1.5 percent, the mid-point of the range forecast of 1-2 percent announced in the August round, the agency said.
The underlying inflation forecast for 2016 was revised down to 2.3 percent from 2.2 percent and headline inflation was forecast to be 2.4 percent versus 2.3 percent projected in August.
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