TEHRAN – According to Iran Statistics Center, the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 4.4 percent in the first quarter of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 20, 2016),IRIB news agency reported on Monday.

Based on the data, during the mentioned period agriculture grew 4%, industry grew 8.8 percent and the growth rate for services sphere was 2.9 percent.
It is worth mentioning that the country’s non-oil gross domestic product growth stood at 2.9 percent alone.

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