DUBAI - Qatar's gross domestic product growth accelerated to an annual 2.2 percent in the third quarter of 2018 from a revised 1.7 percent in the second quarter, the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics said on Thursday.

Quarter-on-quarter growth climbed to 4.0 percent, the highest rate in at least two years, from 1.2 percent.

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