WA Economic Profile and COVID-19 Supplement - Master

However, since 2015, GDP has been trending downwards and, indeed, was recorded as negative in the second quarter of 2019 and 0 in the fourth quarter, even before the global pandemic crisis. First signs of the impact of the crisis can be seen in the figure for the first quarter of 2020 (January to March) when GDP fell by 2.5 per cent. ................
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