Maine ended last year with sluggish economic growth.
Figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis show that the state's gross domestic product grew by a rate of less than 1 percent - seven-tenths of a percent - in the fourth quarter of 2016.
That was slightly better than the four-tenths of a percent growth rate in the third quarter, but well shy of the more than 3 percent growth rate the state generated in the final quarter of 2015.
The latest figure placed Maine 43rd among the states. Nationally, the economy grew at a 1.9 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter of last year. The average growth rate for New England as a whole was also 1.9 percent.
