Fact, fiction, figures

Those falling are private final consumption expenditure, down from 7.3 per cent in 2018 to 3.1 per cent in 2019; gross fixed capital formation, down from 13.3 per cent to four per cent; exports, down from 10.2 per cent to 5.7 per cent; imports from 11 per cent to 4.2 per cent and, of course, the GDP, down from eight per cent to five per cent.