{"id":26010,"date":"2025-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/26010\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:16:35","slug":"omans-gdp-records-4-7-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/26010\/","title":{"rendered":"Oman\u2019s GDP records 4.7% increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oman\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) at current prices recorded a 4.7% increase by the end of the first quarter of 2025. GDP reached OMR 10.53 billion, compared to OMR 10.06 billion during the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary data issued by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsi.gov.om\/ar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Centre for Statistics and Information<\/a> indicated that this growth is mainly due to a rise in non-oil activities, which grew by 4.1% to reach OMR 7.13 billion by the end of Q1 2025, compared to OMR 6.85 billion at the end of Q1 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=652761417  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-85208 size-fusion-600\" src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/GDP-600x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"Oman\u2019s GDP Reaches OMR 10.5 Billion at Current Prices\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The data shows that agriculture and fishing activities grew by 11.1%, reaching OMR 326.6 million. Industrial activities recorded a 2.8% increase, contributing OMR 1.97 billion to GDP. Service activities grew by 4.2%, with a total contribution of OMR 4.84 billion.<\/p>\n<p><img data-opt-id=679316922  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-85210 size-fusion-800\" src=\"https:\/\/mlzlkxvcvliz.i.optimole.com\/cb:ghTT.1f99\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/g:sm\/f:best\/https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/wp-content\/uploads\/GDP-2-800x533-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Oman\u2019s GDP Reaches OMR 10.5 Billion at Current Prices\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oil related activities also contributed to GDP growth, with their added value rising by 6.8%, reaching OMR 3.71 billion by the end of Q1 2025, compared to OMR 3.47 billion at the end of Q1 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This increase came despite a 7.5% decline in crude oil activity, which fell to OMR 2.74 billion. However, natural gas activity recorded a significant growth of 89%, with an added value of OMR 970.8 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oman\u2019s GDP passed the OMR 10.5 billion mark at current prices by the end of the first quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-posts-and-videos","category-trade-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43778,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26010\/revisions\/43778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fm.gov.om\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}