Qataris	Non-Qataris	Total
2015	11,671	1,499,956	1,511,627
2016	10,053	1,592,577	1,602,630
2017	10,210	1,596,340	1,606,550
2018	10,320	1,642,498	1,652,818
2019	9,856	1,651,951	1,661,807
2020	8,511	1,607,387	1,615,898
2021	9,555	1,584,118	1,593,673
2022	9,928	1,665,285	1,675,213
2023	10,724	1,710,971	1,721,695
2024	NA	NA	NA

Source: National Planning Council (NPC). Annual Bulletins of Labour Force Sample Surveys 2015 to 2023

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from the Annual Bulletins of Labour Force Sample Surveys 2015 to 2023 (yearly syntheses)
Sampling frame : Population Censuses 2010, 2015 and 2020.
Sample size since 2020: 65,253 persons, in 10,560 households: 1- Qatari households; 2- Non-Qatari regular (non-collective) households;
3- Non-Qatari small collective households or labour gatherings (2 – 6 persons); 4- Non-Qatari large collective households or large labour gatherings (7 persons or more).
The collective households are a group of persons not related to each other and sharing living conditions in a residential unit, I.e. labour camps, students living boarding schools, nurses in hospitals… etc. The survey covered the small collective households (includes less than 7 persons) and large collective households (includes 7 persons or more).
Data Collection: Labour Force Survey data are collected on a monthly basis, and based on field surveys.
Reference period for the labour force data: the week prior to data collection day.
The survey does not cover short periods accommodation, i.e. hotels.

Employed population:
Persons aged 15 years an above, who during the week preceding the survey:
a) Perform a work for a wage, salary, profits or household gains, whether it was in cash or in kind.
b) Are temporarily not employed, however, they still have an official relation with their work

Population of reference: labour force in the private sector, except for 2020 (employed population)

2. Institution which provides data 

National Planning Council (NPC), formerly the Planning and Statistics Authority (PSA)
https://www.npc.qa/en/pages/default.aspx
https://www.npc.qa/ar/pages/default.aspx

3. Data availability 

Annual and quarterly bulletins of Labour Force Surveys reports can be downloaded from NPC’s website, in PDF and/or Excel formats:
https://www.npc.qa/en/statistics/pages/subjectdetails.aspx#

The Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Survey 2024 is unavailable as of 27 December 2025.

Last date of access: December 2025.
GLMM and GRC cannot guarantee that the link to access the source will not change;
that the information will not be removed from the website it was obtained from;
that no geo-blockages will be imposed; or that the information will not be available for any another reason.

Keywords: Qatar, Employment, Female Employment, National Labour, Foreign Labour

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