Rwanda Q3 economic growth at 7.8 pct compared to year ago - stats office

A Rwandan tea picker works in a field at Mulindi estate, about 60 km (40 miles) north of the capital Kigali, August 5, 2010. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda's economy grew by 7.8 percent in the third quarter of 2014 compared to the same period a year earlier, its statistics office said on Wednesday. The figure was published by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda on its website.