2016第四季度法国经济增长0.3%
The French economy grew by 0.3% in the last three months of 2016, government figures indicate.
法国政府统计数据显示，2016年第四季度法国经济增长0.3%。
At the same time, the country's INSEE statistical office reported that growth was zero in the third quarter of 2016, revised up from an initial estimate of a 0.1% contraction.
The figures mean that the world's fifth-largest economy has escaped falling back into recession.
Over the whole of 2016, the French economy grew by 0.3%.
Meanwhile, the German economy also notched up higher growth in the October-to-December period.
The country's GDP expanded by 0.4% in the final quarter of 2016, after seeing growth of 0. 3% in the previous three months, according to the federal statistics office, Destatis.