{"id":272187,"date":"2026-04-15T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=272187"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:56:12","slug":"imf-improves-armenias-gdp-growth-forecast-to-5-3-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2026\/04\/15\/272187\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF Improves Armenia&#8217;s GDP Growth Forecast to 5.3% in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, April 15. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts real GDP growth for Armenia at 5.3% in 2026 and 5.5% in 2027, according to the April World Economic Outlook, published on April 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In October 2025, the IMF forecast 4.9% economic growth for Armenia in 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the IMF, average annual inflation in the country will be 3.6% in 2026, up from 2.8% in the October forecast, and 3.4% in 2027.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armenia&#8217;s current account deficit in 2026 is expected to be 6% of GDP, compared to 4.7% of GDP according to the October forecast, and 5.2% of GDP in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts real GDP growth for Armenia at 5.3% in 2026 and 5.5% in 2027, according to the April World Economic Outlook, published on April 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":157305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12315,12139,9216],"tags":[12688,15726],"class_list":{"0":"post-272187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-announces","8":"category-economy-en","9":"category-news","10":"tag-armenia-analyst-inflation","11":"tag-15726"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}