DUBAI - Dubai's economy grew 1.94 percent in 2018, the government said on Wednesday, a slowdown from a growth rate of 2.8 percent in 2017.

The government said GDP growth was largely driven by the performance of trade related activities, which grew by 1.3 percent in 2018 from a year earlier, representing 18.1 percent of the total growth achieved last year. In 2017, wholesale and retail trade grew 0.9 percent.

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