Philippines GDP yr/yr growth slows to 5.2% in Q3

© Reuters. A vendor tends to a customer at a public market in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines, October 4, 2024. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez/ File Photo

MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine economy grew 5.2% in the third quarter from a year earlier, the statistics agency said on Thursday, slower the previous quarter’s upwardly revised growth of 6.4%.

Economists in a Reuters poll had expected annual gross domestic product growth of 5.7% in the July to September period.