"Figure 6: The contribution of private consumption to annual GDP growth has eased in recent years","" "UK, 2016 to 2018","" "","" "Notes","" "Unit","Percentage points" "","" "","2016","2017","2018" "GDP","1.8","1.8","1.4" "Private consumption","2.03","1.36","1.08" "Gross capital formation","0.27","0.05","0.46" "Government consumption","0.14","-0.04","0.07" "Net trade","-0.66","0.54","-0.17"