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Country	Population	% of total population
India	545,000	23.580
Nepal	400,000	17.300
Qatar	278,000	12.030
Philippines	200,000	8.650
Egypt	180,000	7.780
Bangladesh	150,000	6.490
Sri Lanka	100,000	4.330
Pakistan	90,000	3.890
Sudan	42,000	1.820
Jordan	40,000	1.720
Indonesia	39,000	1.680
Iran	30,000	1.300
Lebanon	25,000	1.080
Ethiopia	21,374	0.920
Palestine	20,500	0.890
UK	20,000	0.865
USA	15,000	0.650
Tunisia	15,000	0.650
Kenya	9,300	0.400
Eritrea	9,000	0.390
Morocco	9,000	0.390
Iraq	8,976	0.390
Nigeria	7,502	0.325
Canada	7,250	0.310
China	6,000	0.260
Malaysia	5,000	0.216
Russia	5,000	0.216
South Africa	5,000	0.216
Turkey	5,000	0.216
Australia	4,500	0.195
France	3,607	0.160
Afghanistan	3,500	0.150
Thailand	3,000	0.130
Spain	2,500	0.110
South Korea	2,000	0.086
Germany	1,700	0.070
Greece	1,504	0.065
Netherlands	1,350	0.058
Japan	1,000	0.044
Macedonia	1,000	0.044
Romania	1,000	0.044
Italy	900	0.039
Brazil	800	0.034
Bulgaria	600	0.025
Austria	500	0.021
Belgium	500	0.021
Bosnia and Herzegovina	500	0.021
Croatia	430	0.019
Venezuela	337	0.013
Hungary	300	0.013
Singapore	300	0.012
Switzerland	250	0.010
Senegal	200	0.008
Gambia	135	0.006
Azerbaijan	120	0.005
Ecuador	100	0.005
Kazakhstan	100	0.004
El Salvador	100	0.004
Benin	82	0.004
Finland	80	0.004
Dominican Republic	44	0.002
Liberia	40	0.002
Brunei	20	0.001

Source: Foreign embassies in Qatar and press quotes, in BQ Magazine

ANNEXED NOTE

1. Technical Notes and Definitions

The data has been compiled by BQ magazine. The present data was published by BQ on December 7, 2014.

Here are some excerpts of BQ’s article introducing the data and sources:
“The Ministry of Interior also does not provide these statistics to the public, it however does seem to make it available to the Embassies,
as some of them have told bq magazine the figures were given to them by the aforementioned Ministry.
To overcome the hurdle of acquiring this information, bq magazine has used an alternative way to gather information on Qatar´s population by nationality.
All the data comes from the Embassies of respective countries – either by the information given to us directly by them via email or telephone,
or alternatively by gathering the numbers from Ambassadors who have been quoted by various media disclosing the number of their nationals in Qatar.
The vast majority of data is from 2014.”
(…)
“There are a number of nationalities missing, some of which could potentially be present in significant numbers in Qatar.
Those of Syria, Somalia, Algeria and Yemen being some of the likely ones.
The reason for us not publishing the data is because not all Embassies were willing to disclose this information,
simply did not possess the information or in some cases were not possible to get in contact with.” (…)

2. Institution which provides data

BQ Magazine, a monthly business newspaper published in Doha, Qatar http://www.bqdoha.com/

3. Data availability

The data is taken from:
Snoj, Jure. “Population of Qatar by nationality”, BQ Magazine, Doha, December 2014.
http://www.bqdoha.com/2013/12/population-qatar

Date of access: March 2015.

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