{"id":777045634,"date":"2026-07-31T08:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777045634"},"modified":"2026-07-31T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T11:56:42","slug":"macau-gdp-rises-3-7-in-h1-as-visitor-growth-supports-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-gdp-rises-3-7-in-h1-as-visitor-growth-supports-economy","title":{"rendered":"Macau GDP rises 3.7% in H1 as visitor growth supports economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Preliminary figures show the city&#8217;s economy continued to expand in the first half of 2026, although second-quarter growth slowed significantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Macau.- The economy of Macau measured in gross domestic product grew by <strong>3.7 per cent year-on-year<\/strong> in real terms during the first half of 2026, reaching <strong>MOP209.89bn (US$26bn)<\/strong>. That&#8217;s according to preliminary figures released by the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC). The city&#8217;s overall economic output reached <strong>89.1 per cent<\/strong> of the level recorded in the same period of 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Growth was driven primarily by exports of services, which rose <strong>7.2 per cent<\/strong> year-on-year, supported by a <strong>9.0 per cent<\/strong> increase in visitor arrivals. Service exports include gaming and tourism-related spending, which remain the main pillars of Macau&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Domestic demand was more mixed. Private consumption expenditure increased 2.8 per cent, while government final consumption expenditure was down 0.2 per cent and gross fixed capital formation, a measure of investment, down 9.4 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Q2 GDP totalled <strong>MOP102.33bn (US$12.7bn)<\/strong>, representing year-on-year real growth of just 0.3 per cent, while overall economic output reached 87.9 per cent of its pre-pandemic level.<\/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\/11\/9fc874fb-1d1c-42cc-a7ed-01eb5af00261-300x200.jpg\" 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\/imf-forecasts-3-3-macau-growth-as-gaming-slows'>IMF forecasts 3.3% growth for Macau as gaming slows<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preliminary figures show the city&#8217;s economy continued to expand in the first half of 2026, although second-quarter growth slowed significantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":0,"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 economy expanded by 3.7% in real terms during H1 2026, reaching MOP209.89bn, primarily driven by a 7.2% increase in service exports, including gaming and tourism. However, Q2 growth significantly decelerated to just 0.3% year-on-year, indicating a potential slowdown in the latter half of the period.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC), IMF","focusai_location":"Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.75), operator_casino (0.98), investor_analyst (0.97), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Q2 Gaming Sector Impact?","query":"What specific contribution did the gaming vertical make to Macau's significant Q2 2026 economic deceleration, and how does this compare to pre-pandemic recovery trajectories?"},{"label":"Future Investment Outlook?","query":"Given the Q2 slowdown and mixed domestic demand, what are the revised capital expenditure forecasts and M&A prospects for integrated resort operators in Macau for the remainder of 2026 and into 2027?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[24619,24694,257],"class_list":["post-777045634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","tag-finance","tag-gdp","tag-macau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777045634","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777045634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777045634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777045652,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777045634\/revisions\/777045652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777045634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777045634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777045634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}