Latest three months against the previous three
The average of the last three months compared with the average of the three before, which smooths a noisy monthly series.
The ONS headline for monthly GDP is the three-month-on-three-month rate: it damps the noise of single months while still turning sooner than a year-on-year rate. It is the ONS headline growth measure; the zero line is the worldstat.us threshold.
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- Monthly GDP, 3m on 3m United Kingdom +0.7 % Normal