{"id":777041605,"date":"2026-04-30T08:10:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777041605"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:02:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T15:02:06","slug":"macau-gdp-up-7-in-q1-preliminary-figures-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gdp-up-7-in-q1-preliminary-figures-show","title":{"rendered":"Macau GDP up 7% in Q1, preliminary figures show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The preliminary figure for Gross Domestic Product is US$13.4bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The <strong>Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)<\/strong> has reported a preliminary figure for Q1 gross domestic product (GDP) of MOP108bn (US$13.4bn). That would represent a year-on-year real increase of 7.1 per cent. Overall economic output recovered to 90.3 per cent of the same period of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Total exports of services increased by 13.9 per cent year-on-year, fuelled by a <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-tourism-rise-in-q1-2026-with-over-11-million-arrivals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">13.7 per cent rise in visitor arrivals<\/a>. As regards domestic demand, private consumption expenditure grew by 2.8 per cent, while government final consumption expenditure and gross fixed capital formation dipped by 4.8 per cent and 21.9 per cent, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ)<\/strong>&nbsp;reported that Macau\u2019s gross gaming revenue (GGR) for the <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-rises-15-year-over-year-in-march\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-ggr-rises-15-year-over-year-in-march\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">three months of 2026<\/a> was MOP65.87bn (US$8.17bn), up 14.3 per cent year-on-year but 13.5 per cent below pre-pandemic levels (US$9.44bn).<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"see-also-container\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label\">See also:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"related-article\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"related-article__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/macau-ggr-1-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"related-article__text\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"see-also-label-strong\">See also:<\/span> <a href='https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/moodys-revises-macau-outlook-to-stable-and-affirms-aa3-rating'>Moody\u2019s revises Macau outlook<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The preliminary figure for Gross Domestic Product is US$13.4bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":26451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau's Q1 GDP reached US$13.4bn, marking a 7.1% year-on-year increase and recovering to 90.3% of 2019 levels, driven by a 13.9% rise in service exports and visitor arrivals. Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) for the quarter was US$8.17bn, up 14.3% year-on-year, though still 13.5% below pre-pandemic performance. This indicates continued economic and gaming sector recovery, albeit with some domestic demand contractions.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau (DICJ), Moody's","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.95), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Recovery Trajectory","query":"What specific factors are contributing to the persistent 13.5% GGR deficit compared to pre-pandemic levels, and what is the projected timeline for full recovery, considering the decline in gross fixed capital formation?"},{"label":"Economic Diversification Impact","query":"How do the reported declines in government final consumption expenditure and gross fixed capital formation reflect Macau's broader economic diversification efforts, and what implications does this have for long-term gaming sector stability?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163,158],"tags":[24619,24694,257],"class_list":["post-777041605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","category-slider-home","tag-finance","tag-gdp","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777041605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777041605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777041605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777041610,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777041605\/revisions\/777041610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777041605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777041605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777041605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}