{"id":250572,"date":"2026-04-27T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=250572"},"modified":"2026-04-27T09:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:12:39","slug":"gdp-growth-continues-to-be-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2026\/04\/27\/gdp-growth-continues-to-be-good\/","title":{"rendered":"GDP growth continues to be good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Banco-Central-de-la-RD-Listin-Diario-1024x645.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191084\" width=\"600\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In March 2026, according to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Gross Domestic Product grew at a year-on-year increase of 5.1%. This good news was supported by sectors such as construction, free zones, tourism. Within tourism, Hotels, Bars and Restaurants sector grew 11%, making it the leading service sub-sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Central Bank, this is the highest number in the past eleven months. Construction saw a year-over-year increase of 8%, followed by free zone manufacturing at 7.1%, finances and insurance at 7.0%, and the service sector at 5.9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government entity noted that the Dominican Republic received over 2.6 million tourist air arrivals in the first three months of the year, which is a 12.2% increase over 2025. The Central Bank cites 3.2 million total visitors (air arrivals and cruise visitors) for first quarter 2026 as a milestone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the financial and insurance sector, growth was really strong, with the sector placing the equivalent of RD$185 billion more than a year ago. Central Bank officials said that they would be monitoring the challenging international situation and continuing to provide price and macroeconomic stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bancentral.gov.do\/a\/d\/6548-economia-dominicana-registra-crecimiento-interanual-de-51--en-marzo-2026\">Central Bank <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/panorama\/dinero\/economia-crecio-5-1-en-marzo-y-4-1-en-trimestre\/\">El Caribe <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/gobierno\/20260424\/economia-dominicana-registra-crecimiento-interanual-5-1-marzo-2026_903073.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27 April 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2026, according to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, Gross Domestic Product grew at a year-on-year increase of 5.1%. This good news was supported by sectors such as construction, free zones, tourism. Within tourism, Hotels, Bars and Restaurants sector grew 11%, making it the leading service sub-sector. According to the Central Bank, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2026\/04\/27\/gdp-growth-continues-to-be-good\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[340,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250572"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250623,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250572\/revisions\/250623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}