The national accounts in 2018 National accounts - 2014 Base
The annual national accounts give a complete and consistent description of the Nations' economy once a year. The main topics treated are the resources and uses of goods and services, the homogeneous branches activity, the institutional sectors accounts, the Public finances, the income, purchasing power and households consumption, the financial and non financial assets and liabilities, the input and output tables and integrated economic accounts, the specialised accounts.
The item "Gross domestic product (GDP) and main economic aggregates" offers a focus on the most prominent indicators of the National accounts.
The national accounts in 2018
tableauGDP and goods and services
| Changes in volume (constant prices of the previous year, %) | 2018 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | EUR billion | Prices evolution (%) | Evolution in value (%) | Contributions to GDP growth | |
| Gross domestic product (GDP) | 1.1 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 2353.1 | 0.8 | 2.5 | 1.7 |
| Imports of goods and services | 2.9 | 3.9 | 1.2 | 755.6 | 2.0 | 3.3 | -0.4 |
| Total final uses | 1.5 | 2.7 | 1.6 | 3108.7 | 1.1 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
| Actual final consumption of households | 1.8 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 1628.8 | 1.2 | 2.1 | 0.6 |
| of which : | |||||||
| - final consumption expenditure of households | 1.8 | 1.4 | 0.9 | 1219.8 | 1.5 | 2.4 | 0.5 |
| - individual consumption expenditure of general government | 1.9 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 360.3 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.1 |
| Actual final consumption of general government | 0.4 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 190.6 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 0.1 |
| Gross fixed capital formation of which: | 2.7 | 4.7 | 2.8 | 537.9 | 1.4 | 4.3 | 0.6 |
| - non-financial corporations and unincorporated enterprises | 2.9 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 303.5 | 1.1 | 5.0 | 0.5 |
| - households | 2.8 | 6.6 | 2.0 | 126.4 | 1.9 | 3.9 | 0.1 |
| - general government | 0.0 | 0.3 | 2.4 | 79.9 | 1.8 | 4.2 | 0.1 |
| Changes in inventories (*) | -0.4(**) | 0.2(**) | -0.3(**) | 14.0 | -0.3 | ||
| Exports of goods and services | 1.8 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 737.4 | 0.8 | 4.3 | 1.1 |
- (*) including the acquisitions less disposals of valuables.
- (**) contributions to GDP growth.
- Source: National accounts base 2014, INSEE.