What is the population of Qatar in 2020?

Ethnicity[edit]

Qataris can be divided into three ethnic groups: Bedouins, Hadar, and African-origin. Bedouins are descended from the nomads of the Arabian Peninsula. 115,000^[6] Westerners live in Qatar.

Europeans in Qatar[edit]

14% of the population is European. They are of British, Portuguese, French, Armenians, African Americans, Russians, Turks, Scandinavians, Other Arabs, and Italians They live in Doha, Al Wakrah, Mesaieed, Al Rayyan, Umm Salal Mohammed, Al Khor, Ar Ru’ays, Al Khuwayr, Dukhan, and Umm Bab.

Population[edit]

By nationality[edit]

A 2011–2014 report by the International Organization for Migration recorded 176,748 Nepali Citizens of Madhesi ethnicity living in Qatar as migrant workers.^[9][10][11] In 2012 about 7,000 Turkish nationals lived in Qatar^[12] and in 2016 about 1,000 Colombian nationals and descendants lived in Qatar.

Vital statistics[edit]

UN estimates[edit]

Registered births and deaths[edit]

Life expectancy[edit]

CIA World Factbook demographic statistics[edit]

The following demographic statistics are from the CIA World Factbook unless otherwise indicated.

Population[edit]

• 2,123,160 (July 2014 est.) Qatar is the 146th most populated nation.^[17]
• 2,314,307 (July 2017 est.) Qatar is the 143rd most populated nation.^[17]
• 2,444,174 (July 2020 est.) Qatar is the 143rd most populated nation.^[18]

Age structure[edit]

• 0–14 years: 12.84% (male 158,702/female 155,211)
• 15–24 years: 11.78% (male 203,703/female 84,323)
• 25–54 years: 70.66% (male 1,439,364/female 287,575)
• 55–64 years: 3.53% (male 66,561/female 19,600)
• 65 years and over: 1.19% (male 19,067/female 10,068) (2020 est.)

Population growth rate[edit]

• 2.27% (2017 est.)
• 9.56%: World Bank (2009 est.)
• 3.58%: CIA World FactBook (2014 est.)
• 2.11%: 2005–2010 List by the United Nations
• 1.55% (2020 est.)

Sex ratio[edit]

Source:^[5]

• at birth: 1.02 male(s)/female
• 0–14 years: 1.02 male(s)/female
• 15–24 years: 2.42 male(s)/female
• 25–54 years: 5.01 male(s)/female
• 55–64 years: 3.4 male(s)/female
• 65 years and over: 1.89 male(s)/female total population: 3.39 male(s)/female (2020 est.)

Average life span (Life expectancy at birth)[edit]

• Average: 79.4 years
• men: 77.2 years
• women: 81.6 years (2020 est.)

Total fertility rate[edit]

• 2.08 children born per 1 female (2010 est.) (Qataris: 3.59 children/woman, Foreign nationals: 1.75 children/woman)
• 1.88 children born per 1 female (2020 est.)

Nationality[edit]

• noun: Qatari(s)
• adjective: Qatari

Ethnic groups^[6][19][edit]

• Qatari 12.10%^[5]
• Indian 25.00%
• Pakistani 4.80%
• Iranian 1.50%
• Europeans 14%

Country	Number	percent
India	650,000	25.00%
Qatar	330,000	12.10%
Philippines	260,000	10.00%
Egypt	200,000	8.60%
Bangladesh	280,000	12.10%
Sri Lanka	145,256	5.60%
Pakistan	125,000	4.80%
Syria	54,000	2.20%
Sudan	50,000	2.10%
Jordan	40,000	1.72%
Indonesia	39,000	1.68%
Iran	30,000	1.3%-1.50%
United Kingdom	25,000	1.10%
Lebanon	25,000	1.08%
Ethiopia	21,374	0.92%
Palestine	20,500	0.89%

Religions[edit]

• Islam 67.7%—the majority Salafi Sunni^[20]
• Hindu 13.8%
• Christian 13.8%
• Buddhist 3.1%

Languages[edit]

Arabic is the official language of Qatar according to Article 1 of the Constitution.^[21]

English is the de facto second language of Qatar, and is very commonly used in business. Because of Qatar’s varied ethnic landscape, English has been recognized as the most convenient medium for people of different backgrounds to communicate with each other.^[22] The history of English use in the country dates back to the mid-19th and early 20th centuries when the British Empire would frequently draft treaties and agreements with the emirates of the Persian Gulf. One such treaty was the 1916 protectorate treaty signed between Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani and the British representative Percy Cox, under which Qatar would be placed under British administration in exchange for protection. Another agreement drafted in English came in 1932 and was signed between the Qatari government and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. These agreements were mainly facilitated by foreign interpreters due to neither party possessing the required language skills for such complex arrangements. For instance, a translator and native Arabic speaker named A. A. Hilmy interpreted the 1932 agreement for Qatar.^[23]

Hindi, Urdu, Tagalog, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam are commonly used among Asian migrants. In 2015, there were more newspapers being printed by the government in Malayalam than in Arabic or English.^[24]

Literacy[edit]

• definition: age >15 can both read & write
• overall population: 97.3%
• males: 97.4%
• females: 96.8% (2015 est.)

Obesity – adult prevalence rate[edit]

• 35.1% (2016)

Genetics[edit]

Y-chromosome DNA[edit]

Y-Chromosome DNA Y-DNA represents the male lineage, The Qatari Y-chromosome in large belongs to haplogroup J which comprises two thirds of the total chromosomes^[25]

• J1 ≈58.3%
• J2 ≈8.3%
• E* ≈7.0% — E(xE1b1b)
• R1a ≈6.9%
• E1b1b ≈5.6%
• Other Haplogroups ≈13.9%

Mitochondrial DNA[edit]

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) represents the female lineage The Qatari mitochondrial DNA shows much more diversity than the Y-DNA lineages, with more than 35% of the lineages showing African ancestry (East African & Subsaharan) & the rest of the lineages being Eurasian.^[26]

• R0 ~ 22% (14% R0*, 8% H)
• JT ~ 22% (18% J & 4% T)
• UK ~ 20% (11% K & 9% U)
• L3 ~ 10% (East African & Subsaharan lineages)
• Other lineages ~ 26%