Read quarterly real GDP growth with its original periods

1. Start with the exact GDP measure

This selection measures GDP at market prices using chain-linked volumes. Each percentage compares one quarter with the same quarter of the previous year, with seasonal and calendar adjustment. Read the source measure and unit before comparing countries. Datisto retains Eurostat’s reported annual change rather than calculating another growth rate from rounded GDP levels or treating the percentage as a price.

Real growth is a different measurement from nominal GDP in money, GDP per person or household income. This series also differs from change against the immediately preceding quarter, an annualised quarterly rate and a forecast. A larger growth percentage alone does not establish a larger economy, higher living standards or the cause of a country’s performance. Keep those questions separate from this result.

2. Read the whole quarter and preserve gaps

A quarterly observation covers its original calendar interval: January to March, April to June, July to September or October to December. Q2 2026 therefore belongs to April through June, even when you retrieve it in October. Inspect both boundaries in the Value Passport. The monthly macro overview has its own monthly observations; it cannot turn this quarterly measurement into three monthly GDP readings.

Negative growth and exact zero are valid numeric observations. Preserve the original sign and decimal spelling when checking an exported value. Missing data means something else: leave an absent quarter unavailable instead of inserting zero, carrying a preceding value forward or drawing an invented intermediate point. Match countries by the same original quarter, adjustment and measure before interpreting a difference.

3. Check the selected countries and current revisions

The reviewed selection contains Czechia, Germany and Poland over 38 quarters, from Q1 2017 through Q2 2026. That fixed window describes this available source capability; it does not promise future quarters, another country or every national-accounts measure. Select the countries and period you need, then check the applied query. A later expansion requires its own source and rights review.

The actual source capture on 15 October 2026 contained 114 numeric observations and 14 provisional flags on later German observations. Those counts describe that capture, not a permanent completeness guarantee. Provisional status stays attached to its original value. The history is the currently available revised history, so a later run may return revisions. It does not reconstruct what readers knew at the first publication of each quarter.

4. Separate the measured period from source clocks

The measured quarter, source dataset update, actual capture, ingestion and result computation answer different questions. For the retained 15 October source capture, the dataset update was 09:00 UTC and capture followed at 11:23:12.610 UTC. Neither clock proves the first publication time of an individual observation. An unavailable individual publication or revision clock remains explicitly unknown rather than borrowing the dataset’s update time.

Open the source panel to inspect NAMQ_10_GDP, its methodology and current permissions. Eurostat disseminates the statistics compiled under ESA 2010; the selection uses its original reported measure. Source: Eurostat, NAMQ_10_GDP. Datisto prepares this selection, visualisation and original English and Czech explanation. Eurostat is not responsible for those preparations, and the display does not imply its endorsement.

5. Verify and preserve the same result

Use graph and table to inspect the same applied result. Open a point’s Value Passport and check country, original decimal value, percentage unit, quarter, quality, evidence and method. Export reviews that result and its manifest. Compare its query and original rows with the displayed selection rather than assuming that a download silently refreshes the source or uses another period.