我和小夥伴都驚呆了！北朝鮮經濟增速超歐盟

North Korea’s economy expanded by 1.0% to $29.85 billion in 2014, according to Reuters citing analysis from South Korea’s central bank.
據路透社從南韓中央銀行獲得的數據顯示，在2014年，北朝鮮的經濟增長率爲1.0%，總產值達到了298億5千萬美元。

The Bank of Korea (BoK) report that “the increase in economic activity was attributed mainly to Growth in services and building while farming, mining and manufacturing saw slower growth”.
韓國銀行的報道稱，“（北朝鮮的）經濟增長主要體現在服務業和建築業的大幅增長，而農業、礦業和製造業的增長率則偏低。”

Growth in services, making up around 31.3% of total economic output, accelerated to 1.3%, up from 0.3% in 2013, with retail sales, food and accommodation, logistics and communications all expanding from a year earlier.
服務業增長的產值佔到了經濟總量的31.3%左右，增速從2013年的0.3%上漲到了1.3%。零售、餐飲及住宿、物流和信息等行業也較前年有所增長。

Construction increased by 1.4%, rebounding from a 1.0% contraction in 2013, with an increase in buildings offsetting declines in road and plant construction, according to the BoK.
據韓國銀行的數據顯示，北朝鮮建築業自1013年1.0%的萎縮之後，今年實現反彈式增長，增幅達到1.4%。建築數量的增長彌補了道路和植被數量的下降。

Reuters notes that the BoK’s analysis did not include black market economic activity that has grown steadily in recent years, creating a consuming class with demand for products such as cosmetics, smartphones, fruit juices and foreign clothes, according to residents and visitors.
路透社評論稱，據北朝鮮居民及外國遊客透露，韓國銀行的相關分析並不包括黑市經濟活動。黑市經濟活動近年來的穩步增長促使北朝鮮出現了一個消費階層，他們需要化妝品、智能手機、果汁和外國服裝等高檔產品。

While modest economic expansion, the BoK suggest that a savage drought currently gripping the nation, the worst in a century, could hobble economic growth in the impoverished nation in the current calendar year.
但韓國銀行評論認爲，儘管北朝鮮今年經濟大幅增長，但該國正面臨百年一遇的旱災，在這個並不富庶的國家，災情可能對經濟的增長產生束縛作用。

North Korea does not release official economic data, hence the reliance on the BoK analysis to estimate economic output.
介於北朝鮮並不會公佈官方經濟數據，因此人們只能根據韓國銀行的相關分析來估算北朝鮮的經濟產值。