The growth is one percentage point higher than in the last year's first quarter when it amounted to six percent. Last year GDP growth amounted to 4.8 percent.
The 2007 GDP growth rate was primarily generated by an increase in personal spending and growing fixed capital investment.
Government spending went up 2.8 per cent, which is substantially higher than in the first three months of 2006 when it amounted to one percent.
Exports of goods and services rose 3 percent, compared to 2006, while imports amounted to 3.7 percent.