COPENHAGEN, Dec 22 (Reuters) - Denmark's gross domestic product (GDP) rose 0.6 percent in the third quarter from the second quarter for a year-on-year drop of 5.2 percent, the statistics office said on Tuesday.
The median estimates in a Reuters survey of six economists had been for a 0.1 percent increase quarter-on-quarter and a yearly 5.6 percent drop. [ID:nGEE5B110F]
GDP Q3 2009 Q2 2009
Percentage change qtr/qtr +0.6 -1.4*
Percentage change yr/yr -5.2 -7.1**
* Revised from an initial reading of minus 2.6 percent
** Revised from an initial reading of minus 7.2 percent
Further details in Danish available on the Danish National Statistics Office's website www.dst.