Gross domestic product plunged at a record annual pace of 15.2 percent in the three months to March as exports collapsed and businesses cut production, the government said Wednesday.
It was the biggest fall since records were first kept in 1955.
GDP for all of fiscal 2008 also saw its biggest ever fall of 3.5 percent.
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