The rate of growth slowed from 4.2% in the first quarter. The main contributors to growth in Q2 were market-based services, according to the KSH.
Adjusted for calendar effects, GDP rose 3.8% in Q2, decelerating slightly from 3.9% in Q1.
KSH department head Zsuzsanna Boros Szőke said the growth rate was impacted by a slowdown in industrial output and a decline in the output of the farm sector.
Analysts had put Q2 growth at 3.6% prior to the release.
Compared to the previous quarter, the volume of GDP grew by 0.9% in the second quarter of 2017, slowing from 1.4% quarter-on-quarter growth in Q1, according to seasonally and calendar-adjusted and reconciled data.
Speaking to state news wire MTI, ING Bankʼs chief analyst Péter Virovácz said growth could climb back to around 4% in the coming quarters, lifting the full-year rate of increase to 3.9%.
K&H Bank senior analyst Dávid Németh attributed the slowdown to the weaker performance of the industrial sector and a high base. He put GDP growth for the full year at 3.8%.
A second estimate of GDP figures for the second quarter will be published by the KSH on September 5.
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