Qatar: Economically active population (aged 15 years and above) by nationality (Qatari/non-Qatari), sex and age group (2022)

  Qataris Non-Qataris Total
  Males Females Total Males Females Total Males Females Total
15 – 19 685 31 716 3,935 4,490 8,425 4,620 4,521 9,141
20 – 24 9,970 2,882 12,852 128,456 44,403 172,859 138,426 47,285 185,711
25 – 29 12,355 9,942 22,297 226,568 29,524 256,092 238,923 39,466 278,389
30 – 34 12,130 8,794 20,924 429,003 97,050 526,053 441,133 105,844 546,977
35 – 39 10,300 9,457 19,757 327,265 34,267 361,532 337,565 43,724 381,289
40 – 44 5,353 6,088 11,441 265,537 49,170 314,707 270,890 55,258 326,148
45 – 49 9,438 5,912 15,350 123,609 21,614 145,223 133,047 27,526 160,573
50 – 54 5,101 2,453 7,554 120,759 14,398 135,157 125,860 16,851 142,711
55 – 59 4,776 2,736 7,512 45,685 5,912 51,597 50,461 8,648 59,109
60 – 64 1,318 248 1,566 24,741 2,610 27,351 26,059 2,858 28,917
65 + 722 141 863 9,738 790 10,528 10,460 931 11,391
Total 72,148 48,684 120,832 1,705,296 304,228 2,009,524 1,777,444 352,912 2,130,356

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Sample Survey 2022    

               

ANNEXED NOTE               

               

  1. Technical Notes and Definitions

 

The data is taken from Labour Force Survey 2022 (yearly synthesis)

Sampling frame: Population Census 2020.

Sample size: 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: The sample was divided into equal parts to collect data monthly.  Each month 1/3 of the quarterly data were collected during the first two weeks of the month.

Reference period for the labour force data: the week prior to data collection day.

The survey did not cover short periods accommodation, i.e., hotels.

The present data includes active population, i.e., employed and unemployed. It does not include persons seeking work for the first time.

 

  1. Institution which provides data

 

Planning and Statistics Authority

https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/Pages/default.aspx

 

  1. Data availability

 

Labour Force Surveys (yearly and quarterly data) can be downloaded from PSA’s website, in PDF and Excel format:

https://www.psa.gov.qa/en/statistics1/pages/topicslisting.aspx?parent=Social&child=LaborForce

Last date of access: November 2023.    

 

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, Labour Market, Employment, Female Employment, National & Foreign Labour, National Labour, Foreign Labour