KIEV, March 11 – Ukraine's GDP in the fourth quarter of 2012 fell by 2.5% compared to the fourth quarter of 2011, according to updated information from the State Statistics Service.

Earlier, the service said that the country's GDP in October-December 2012 dropped by 2.7%.

According to the update, GDP grew in the first and second quarters of 2012, by 2.2% and 3% respectively, and fell in the third quarter, by 1.3%.

At the same time, the assessment of GDP growth in 2012 as a whole remains at 0.2%.