Qatar: Employed population (15 years and above) by nationality (Qatari/non-Qatari), sex and occupation (2023)

Qataris  Non-Qataris Total
Males Females Total Males Females Total Males Females Total
Legislators, Senior Officials and Managers 10,004 3,639 13,643 42,084 4,487 46,571 52,088 8,126 60,214
Professionals 18,108 22,357 40,465 188,466 97,628 286,094 206,574 119,985 326,559
Technicians and Associate Professionals 13,409 5,581 18,990 155,078 32,599 187,677 168,487 38,180 206,667
Clerks 23,696 16,214 39,910 110,887 40,732 151,619 134,583 56,946 191,529
Service Workers and Shop and Market Sales Workers 2,385 1,037 3,422 146,127 59,628 205,755 148,512 60,665 209,177
Skilled Agricultural and Fishery Workers 0 0 0 31,000 0 31,000 31,000 0 31,000
Craft and Related Trades Workers 2,603 0 2,603 536,599 826 537,425 539,202 826 540,028
Plant and Machine Operators And Assemblers 1,619 0 1,619 278,692 254 278,946 280,311 254 280,565
Elementary Occupations 1,005 439 1,444 202,788 88,945 291,733 203,793 89,384 293,177
Total 72,829 49,267 122,096 1,691,721 325,099 2,016,820 1,764,550 374,366 2,138,916

Source: Annual Bulletin of Labour Force Sample Survey 2023

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data is taken from Labour Force Survey 2023 (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 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

Classification of occupations used: ISCO-88.

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#

Last date of access: October 2025.
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Keywords: Qatar, Employment, Female Employment, National Labour, Foreign Labour