The Baltic region's fastest growing state, Estonia, increased its GDP by 5.8% to 106.5 billion krone ($7.3 billion) last year, the country’s statistic office has reported.

Most of the growth was in construction (+14.7%), the restaurant and hotel sector (+12.7%), mining (+10.6%) and wholesale and retail trades (+10.1%). Declines were seen in agriculture (-4.7%), fishing (-2.5%) and electricity, gas and water supplies (-1.9%). The annual inflation rate was 2.7%.

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