Ethiopia’s National Planning Commission recently released the final GDP estimates for the 2019-20 fiscal year that ended in June 2020. While the headline figure—of 6.1 percent real GDP growth—has been widely reported, other aspects have received less attention. We take a closer look at the underlying data, especially recent trends in key productive sub-sectors as well as in consumer spending, government consumption, and investment. We also place Ethiopia’s GDP data in a cross-country context that includes…

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