MOSCOW, January 27 (RIA Novosti) - By the estimate of the Russian Federation Economic Development and Trade Ministry, in December 2003 the growth of the gross domestic product totaled 8.2% against December 2002; inflation grew 1.1%. This data appeared at the ministry's web site.
Summing up the year, the GDP growth totaled 7%, and the growth of consumer prices 12%, as economic development minister German Gref had said earlier.
The growth of industrial production, just as the GDP, totaled 7% in 2003 against the previous year. In December industrial production grew 7.9 percent against December 2002.
Investments in the fixed capital in December grew by 14.5%; on the whole for the year they increased by 12.5 percent.
