Portugal’s third-quarter GDP growth confirmed at 2.9%, final data show

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Published: Nov 30, 2021, 11:42 UTC

(Reuters) - Portugal's tourism-dependent economy grew 2.9% in the third quarter of 2021 from the previous three-month period, data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) showed on Tuesday.

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(Reuters) – Portugal’s tourism-dependent economy grew 2.9% in the third quarter of 2021 from the previous three-month period, data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) showed on Tuesday.

The second reading confirmed the flash estimate figures released by the INE on October 29. The economy grew 4.2% from a year earlier between July and September, the data showed.

(Reporting by Joao Manuel Mauricio in Gdansk; Editing by Sergio Goncalves em Lisboa)

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