2.9% GDP growth rate at constant prices in the second quarter of 2022

The Department of Statistics issued the results of the preliminary quarterly ‎estimates of the GDP at fixed prices for the second quarter of 2022. The results show that ‎growth reached 2.9% during the second quarter of 2022 compared with the same quarter ‎of 2021. ‎
The preliminary estimations have shown positive growth during the second quarter of ‎‎2022 compared with the second quarter of 2021. The results indicated that the quarrying ‎Sector has achieved the highest growth rate at 7.4% a contribution of 0.19 percentage points, followed by construction Sector at 4.9% a contribution of 0.14 percentage points, then by Transport, storage & Communications Sector by 4.5% a contribution of 0.38 ‎percentage points and finally the Wholesale, retail trade, restaurant and hotels by 3.9 ‎which contributed by 0.35 percentage points of the achieved growth rate.‎
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