As eagerly awaited as the first sight of Kim Kardashian's baby, but probably less attractive, China's second quarter economic data have arrived.

With the world's second largest economy careening toward its slowest growth in more than 20 years, China Real Time charts it out:

Growth slowed to 7.5% year-on-year in the second quarter, down from 7.7% in the first. That puts the economy on track to hit the government's 7.5% target for the year, a result that would still be down from 7.8% in 2012, and the lowest growth since 1990.

On a quarter-on-quarter annualized basis - the way in which growth is measured in the U.S. – the economy actually accelerated slightly to 6.9%, up from 6.6% in the second quarter. Investment bank economists continued to make their own estimates of the sequential growth rate. Louis Kuijs, China economist at RBS, put it at 6.3% in the second quarter, up from 6.1%.

With some still doubting the official data is free from political interference, alternative measures painted a mixed picture.