YEREVAN, October 3 (RIA Novosti, Gamlet Matevosyan) - Armenia's GDP in January-August grew 11.7% year on year to $2.5 billion, a government official said Monday.
According to the National Statistics Service, per capita GDP for the period was $784.
Armenia's H1 industrial output grew 6.2% to $906.5 million and agricultural output increased by 11.8% to $550.5 million.
Estimated GDP annual growth rate is 8% and inflation, 3%.
The country's H1 trade turnover was almost $1.7 billion, a 31.4% increase year on year.
The average monthly salary in January-August was $109, up 23.6% compared with the same period last year.
Unemployment fell by 1.1% to 124,300 jobless.
