The illegal siege of Qatar does not seem to have slowed down Qatar’s growth story one bit.

According to latest statistics by the Ministry of the Development Planning and Statistics, Qatar’s population has shot up to an all-time high figure of more than 2.706 million people, reported Gulf Times.

The latest figure is based on the actual number of people within Qatari territory at the end of April 2018. 

The ministry also announced that the latest figure is 0.8% higher than the population of March when the country had 2,685,053 inhabitants. 

The latest figures put Qatar’s population at 2,706,817 people (2,019,725 males and 687,092 females), which are even higher than the previous highest of 2,700,539, recorded in May, 2017. 

Until now, the highest population figures of 2018 were in February, when the country had 2,700,390 residents, which included 2,017,612 males and 682,778 females. 

The lowest population in the last one year was in August 2017 when a considerably large number of residents were away on vacation. The figure of that month was only 2,446,328.