Consumer spending, investment and trade ensured that the euro zone economy sped up in the fourth quarter, with falling inventories the only real drag on growth, data from the European statistics agency Eurostat has shown.
Eurostat confirmed its earlier estimate that the euro zone economy expanded by 0.3% on a quarterly basis and by 0.9% on an annual basis.
This comes after 0.2% quarterly growth in the third quarter and 0.1% in the second.
Eurostat said that household demand added 0.2 percentage points to the overall quarterly outcome, gross fixed capital formation 0.1 points and trade a further 0.2 points.
The contribution from government spending was zero, while changes to inventories took away 0.2 point from the final result.
The euro zone's biggest economy Germany grew 0.7% quarter-on-quarter, while the second biggest France slowed to 0.1% growth from 0.3% expansion in the previous three months.
The euro zone's third biggest economy, Italy, was flat in the three months from October to December after contraction in the other three quarters of last year.
