Paris (EFE).- Spain is one of the four OECD countries, along with Germany, the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic, in which activity in the first quarter of this year was still below that of the last quarter of 2019 , before the effects of the covid crisis began to be felt.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which published this Friday the data on the gross domestic product (GDP) of the member countries for which they are available, explained in a statement that production in the bloc as a whole in the first quarter of this year was 4.5% higher than that of the fourth quarter of 2019.
The United States stands out as one of the fastest and most vigorously recovered since the coronavirus hit: its GDP between January and March exceeded that of the last quarter of 2019 by 5.3%.
Other members of the G7 had also progressed: Canada 3.5%, Italy 2.4%, France and Japan 1.3% each.
By contrast, the United Kingdom remained 0.5% below and Germany 0.1%.
In the case of Spain, its GDP in the first quarter of this year was 298,958 million euros, compared to 299,494 million in the last pre-covid quarter, which represents a drop of about 0.2%.