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The continuous rise in the price and production of crude oil and
steadily increasing production of LNG pushed the energy related
sectors upwards while having a flow on effect to the rest of the
economy. Strong growth was seen across the whole economy. The
contribution of the mining and quarrying industry still dominates
Qatar’s GDP representing 63.4 percent of total GDP or 60.9 billion
QRs in the second quarter of 2008, this was up from 32.9 billion QRs
in the corresponding quarter of 2007. Finance, Insurance, Real
Estate and Banks Services represent the largest activity outside of
the mining and quarrying industry with value added equal to 8.1
billion QRs, representing 8.5 percent of GDP. Government Services
accounted for 7.9 percent of total GDP (7.6 billion QRs).
Manufacturing value-added accounted for 8.2 percent of total GDP or
7.9 billion QRs.
QSA added that these figures remain provisional and will be revised
as new data becomes available.
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