Moldova’s economy grows by 3.6 per cent in fourth quarter of 2025; sectors with largest contribution to GDP's increase

The economy of Moldova grew by 3.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2025. For the entire year 2025, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 2.4 per cent. The data today was presented by the National Statistics Bureau (BNS).

According to the BNS, in the fourth quarter of 2025, the total gross value added in the economy, which accounts for 85.6 per cent of GDP formation, increased in real terms by 3.9 per cent compared to the fourth quarter of 2024, contributing 3.4 percentage points to GDP’s growth.

The increase in GDP was positively influenced by developments in such sectors as information and communications, agriculture, forestry and fishing, manufacturing, construction, education, public administration and defense, mandatory social insurance and other service activities.

On the other hand, GDP’s dynamics in the fourth quarter of 2025 were negatively affected mainly by such activities as real estate transactions, wholesale and retail trade, maintenance and repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, transportation and storage and the production and supply of electricity and heat, gas, hot water and air conditioning.

According to BNS data, the GDP growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to the same quarter of the year before, which in our country reached 3.6 per cent (gross series), was below the level recorded in Cyprus (4.5 per cent), Poland (3.9 per cent), North Macedonia (3.8 per cent), on par with Croatia (3.6 per cent), while exceeding the indicator in most of the analyzed countries: Turkey (3.4 per cent), Bulgaria (3.1 per cent), Lithuania (3.1 per cent), Ukraine (3.0 per cent), Latvia (2.9 per cent), the Czech Republic (2.3 per cent), Ireland and Serbia (2.2 per cent each), Slovenia (2.0 per cent), the average level in EU member states (1.6 per cent), Montenegro (1.5 per cent), Estonia, Hungary, Germany (below 1.0 per  cent), etc.

At the same time, in Romania and Iceland, on the concerned, the GDP decreased by 1.3 per cent and 0.6 per cent, respectively.

Also, in 2025, according to preliminary data, GDP amounted to 353.5 billion lei (current market prices) and increased, in real terms, by 2.4 per cent compared to 2024.