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(d) GDP by Economic Activity at Constant (2000) Prices

Year-on-year rates of change in real terms of value added

of major economic activities(1) (%)

Manufacturing

Construction

Services

of which:

Wholesale, retail and import and export trades,

restaurants and hotels

Transport, storage and communications

Financing, insurance, real estate and business services

Community, social and personal services

2004@

2005@

+1.7

+0.8

-9.8

-4.4

+9.9

+8.1

+15.1

+11.2

+13.9

+13.5

+13.1

+9.3

+2.6

+0.7

Notes: Figures in brackets refer to percentage changes over the same period of the preceding year.

(1) Figures for 2005 refer to the percentage changes in the first three quarters over the same period a

year earlier.

§

Less than 0.05%.

Source: National Income Branches (1) and (2), Census and Statistics Department.

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