Slovak GDP grew by 9.45% in the last four quarters

Recent Statistical Office's report of 9.4% growth in GDP for 2Q2007 means that Slovakia has been growing at an average pace of 9.45% in the last 12 months (9.8 & 9.6% in 3&42006, and 9.0% in 1Q2007).
At that speed, with the whole EU growing at about 2.9%, Slovakia caught up in a single year more than 4 percentage points in its performance relative to the European Union's average (from about 60 to about 64% of the EU-25 average in GDP per person in PPS).