In December the government released national accounts figures for 2009. These put GDP at L£52.65trn (US$34.9bn), with real growth of 8.5% in 2008. The figures suggested that in 2009 private consumption grew by 8.3%, compared with 9.5% in 2008, and public consumption rose by 8.6%, unchanged from 2008. Private investment grew by 38.1% in 2009, up from 20.4% in 2008. Public investment rose by 8.4% in 2009, compared with a decline of 5.9% in 2008. The figures therefore underpinned other indicators that have shown a strong rise in growth led by private-sector investment in recent years. The figures were the latest in a series produced with technical assistance from the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, the French national statistics office.