Demographics of Qatar

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

• 0–14 years: 12.63% (male 148,021/female 144,252)
• 15–24 years: 12.35% (male 206,055/female 79,859)
• 25–54 years: 70.59% (male 1,359,383/female 274,334)
• 55–64 years: 3.42% (male 61,051/female 18,203)
• 65 years and over: 1% (male 14,932/female 8,217) (2017 est.)

• 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

Source:[5]

• At birth: 1.02 male(s)/female
• 0–14 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
• 15–24 years: 2.64 male(s)/female
• 25–54 years: 4.91 male(s)/female
• 55–64 years: 3.38 male(s)/female
• 65 years and over: 1.71 male(s)/female
• total population: 3.41 male(s)/female (2017 est.)

• Average: 78.9 years
• men: 76.8 years
• women: 81 years (2017 est.)

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

• noun:Qatari(s)
• adjective: Qatari

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

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%

• Islam 67.7%—the majority Salafi Sunni[19]
• Hindu 13,8%
• Christian 13,8%
• Buddhist 3.1%

Arabic is the official language of Qatar according to Article 1 of the Constitution.[20]

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.[21] 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.[22]

Hindi, Urdu, Tagalog, Bengali, Tamil 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.[23]

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

• 35.1% (2016)

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[24]

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

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.[25]

• 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%