To put it in another way, at the end of 2010 our people will be 18.3 percent better off from where they were at the beginning of 2007. This trend is likely to continue for the next three years, during the construction period of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project.
Even more important then the overall growth in GDP is the estimated non-mineral sectors growth of 7.2 percent per annum. This translates to a per capita growth of 4.7 percent, the highest and longest period of growth on record since independence.