The state economy grew in the last quarter of 2018, but at a much slower pace than in the third quarter, according to the newest data from the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Connecticut’s gross domestic product grew by a seasonally-adjusted 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter, BEA data released today shows, compared to 9 percent in the third quarter, -3.6 percent in the second and 1.7 percent in the first. Over the course of 2018, the state’s GDP grew by 1 percent, up from -0.6 percent in 2017. At $1.1 trillion, the state’s GDP is just over 5 percent of the United States economy.

The biggest growth in the dollar value of products and services produced by different sectors in the fourth quarter were: non-durable goods manufacturing (0.53 percent growth), information (0.51 percent growth) wholesale trade (0.42 percent growth) and real estate and leasing (0.38 percent growth). The stock market troubles of late 2018 were the financial industry output, which dropped by 0.51 percent.

Over the course of 2018, the biggest growth in economic output occurred in information (0.35 percent growth), the manufacturing of durable goods (0.33 percent growth), real estate (0.3 percent growth) and non-durable goods manufacturing (0.2 percent growth).