I must emphasize that the Central Statistical Office (CSO) is the official source of real annual GDP data, which is published in the Ministry of Finance and the Economy’s “Review of the Economy” and which is also published in the Central Bank’s “Annual Economic Survey”.
On the other hand, the Central Bank, using a different methodology from the CSO, prepares and publishes quarterly real GDP estimates, which are published in its “Economic Bulletin” and “Monetary Policy Report”. It is, therefore, foolhardy to treat these two entirely different sets of GDP data as one consistent source for the purpose of evaluating economic projections, either of the Bank or the CSO.