Between the end of 1998 and 2009, the last year for which comprehensive figures are available, the Jersey economy actually shrank by about one per cent in real terms, or in other words with the effect of inflation taken into account.
Over the same period the UK economy saw real growth of 22 per cent, though the data used here and on the other side of the Channel to measure economic performance are not precisely comparable.
• See today’s JEP for the full report
