Full-year growth for 2015 came in at 5%, down from 6% in 2014 but was within the government's and central bank's estimates of between 4.5% and 5.5%.
Economists in a Reuters poll expected annual growth of 4.3% for the fourth quarter, its slowest since the first quarter of 2013 when it grew at the same pace. The economy expanded 4.7% in the third quarter.