National accounts - Base 2005
Last update: May 15, 2013
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 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.
| Source: National accounts base 2005, INSEE | ||||||
| (*) including the net acquisition of valuables | ||||||
| (**) contributions to GDP growth | ||||||
| Changes in volume (constant prices of the previous year, %) | 2012 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | Prices 2012 / 2011 (%) | Nominal value (In billions of euros) | Contributions to GDP growth | |
| Gross domestic product (GDP) | 1.7 | 2.0 | 0.0 | 1.5 | 2032.3 | 0.0 |
| Imports | 8.9 | 5.1 | -1.1 | 1.9 | 602.6 | 0.3 |
| Total final uses | 3.2 | 2.7 | -0.2 | 1.6 | 2634.9 | -0.3 |
| Actual final consumption of households | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 1.6 | 1500.6 | 0.0 |
| of which expenditures: | ||||||
| - of households | 1.5 | 0.5 | -0.4 | 1.9 | 1129.8 | -0.2 |
| - of general government | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 328.3 | 0.2 |
| Actual final consumption of general government | 2.0 | -1.5 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 174.5 | 0.1 |
| Gross fixed capital formation of which: | 1.4 | 2.9 | -1.2 | 1.7 | 401.8 | -0.2 |
| - non-financial corporations and unincorporated enterprises | 6.6 | 3.1 | -2.1 | 1.3 | 208.4 | -0.2 |
| - households | -0.4 | 2.4 | -0.3 | 2.3 | 110.5 | 0.0 |
| - general government | -8.1 | 0.2 | -0.5 | 2.2 | 63.7 | 0.0 |
| Changes in inventories (*) | 0.1(**) | 1.1(**) | -0.9(**) | - | 0.5 | -0.9 |
| Exports | 9.5 | 5.4 | 2.4 | 1.2 | 557.6 | 0.6 |