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Headline economic indicators for Qatar, with the most recent official readings.

Prices

Prices — Qatar
Indicator Value Change
Inflation rate · 1.3% -1.76 (-58.1%)
Consumer price index · 126.0 +1.58 (+1.3%)
GDP deflator inflation · -3.2% -1.63 (-107.6%)

GDP

GDP — Qatar
Indicator Value Change
GDP growth rate · 2.9% -0.21 (-6.7%)
GDP per capita · 72,524.91 -3,160 (-4.2%)
GDP per capita, long-run history · 149,171 +5,702 (+4.0%)
GDP · 215,559,615,384.62 -734,890,110 (-0.3%)
GDP, PPP · 383,067,790,400 +20,945,783,380 (+5.8%)
GDP per capita, PPP · 128,883 +2,170 (+1.7%)
GDP per capita growth · -1.1% +3.11 (+74.6%)
GNI per capita · 74,330 -2,240 (-2.9%)
Agriculture to GDP · 0.3% +0.02 (+5.3%)
Industry to GDP · 57.0% -1.72 (-2.9%)
Manufacturing to GDP · 7.9% -0.30 (-3.7%)
Services to GDP · 47.0% +1.66 (+3.7%)
Household consumption to GDP · 19.5% -2.38 (-10.9%)
Gross capital formation to GDP · 30.6% -6.16 (-16.7%)
Gross savings to GDP · 57.4% +5.98 (+11.6%)

Labour

Labour — Qatar
Indicator Value Change
Unemployment rate · 0.1% +0.00 (+0.0%)
Labour force participation rate · 87.0% -0.21 (-0.2%)
Female labour force participation rate · 61.9% +0.07 (+0.1%)
Youth unemployment rate · 0.6% -0.01 (-2.4%)
Employment to population ratio · 86.9% -0.21 (-0.2%)
Employment in agriculture · 1.6% -0.04 (-2.5%)
Employment in industry · 38.0% -0.21 (-0.5%)
Employment in services · 60.4% +0.25 (+0.4%)

Money

Money — Qatar
Indicator Value Change
Real interest rate · 8.2% +0.35 (+4.4%)
Broad money to GDP · 94.7% +3.52 (+3.9%)
Private sector credit to GDP · 126.8% +5.79 (+4.8%)
Lending rate · 4.8% -1.43 (-23.1%)
Bank deposit rate · 4.7% -0.52 (-10.1%)
Stock market capitalization to GDP · 82.1% +3.34 (+4.2%)
Official exchange rate · 3.64 +0.00 (+0.0%)

Trade

Trade — Qatar
Indicator Value Change
Current account to GDP · 14.8% -2.70 (-15.4%)
Exports to GDP · 68.6% +9.87 (+16.8%)
Imports to GDP · 31.6% -2.44 (-7.2%)
Trade to GDP · 100.2% +7.43 (+8.0%)
Exports of goods and services · 161,692,857,142.86 +56,143,406,593 (+53.2%)
Imports of goods and services · 74,520,054,945.05 +13,315,659,341 (+21.8%)
Trade balance, goods and services (annual) · 48,744,230,769.23 -6,780,219,780 (-12.2%)
Current account balance (annual) · 31,926,923,076.92 -5,957,692,308 (-15.7%)
Foreign direct investment to GDP · 1.4% +1.19 (+561.4%)
Remittances received to GDP · 0.6% -0.08 (-12.5%)
Total reserves, including gold · 55,847,316,824.2 +1,859,901,234 (+3.4%)
Reserves in months of imports · 7.5 +0.76 (+11.3%)

Government

Government — Qatar
Indicator Value Change
Government consumption to GDP · 12.9% -3.77 (-22.7%)
Education spending to GDP · 3.2% +0.43 (+15.3%)
Health spending to GDP · 2.5% +0.34 (+15.4%)

Demography

Demography — Qatar
Indicator Value Change
Population · 2,972,215 +114,393 (+4.0%)
Population, long-run history · 2,559 +6.54 (+0.3%)
Population growth · 3.9% -3.40 (-46.4%)
Life expectancy · 82.5 +0.15 (+0.2%)
Fertility rate · 1.72 -0.01 (-0.7%)
Birth rate · 9.5 -0.38 (-3.9%)
Death rate · 1.1 +0.12 (+13.0%)
Urban population share · 99.4% +0.04 (+0.0%)
Population aged 65 and over · 1.7% +0.02 (+1.5%)
Under-five mortality rate · 5.9 -0.10 (-1.7%)
Population density · 248.7 +17.56 (+7.6%)
Net migration · 36,288 -9,817 (-21.3%)
Gini index · 35.1 unchanged

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

No separate list is published for Qatar; the database as a whole is cited above.

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