Compared with the third quarter of 2014, GDP adjusted for working days contracted by 0.2 per cent.
Revisions put the change in the volume of GDP in the second quarter of 2015 at 0.4 per cent from the previous quarter and at 0.7 per cent from twelve months back.
In the third quarter, the volume of exports declined by 0.7 per cent from the previous quarter and by 3.4 per cent year-on-year.
Imports increased by 1.8 per cent from the previous quarter but decreased by 3.4 per cent year-on-year, the data show.
In the third quarter, the volume of private consumption grew by 0.8 per cent from the previous quarter and by 1.4 per cent from twelve months back.
Gross fixed capital formation, or investments, fell by 3.9 per cent year-on-year.