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State of Qatar

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    Country Name: State of Qatar

    Head of State: Sheikh HAMAD bin Khalifa al-Thani

    Area: 11,437 km2

    Government type: Emirate, cabinet member:

    Capital: Doha

    National day: 3 September (independence 1971)

    Popultion: 2m. (July 2016)

    Population growth rate: 2.64% (2016)

    Population density: 69/ pkm2

    Language: Arabic (official), English commonly used as a second language

    Religion: Muslim 77.5%, Christian 8.5%, other 14% (2004 census)

    Ethnic groups: Arab 40%, Indian 18%, Pakistani 18%, Iranian 10%, other 14

    GDP - real growth rate: 2.6%(2016)

    GDP per capita (ppp): US$129,700 (2016)

    Currency: Rial(QR)=100dirhams   foreign exchange

    GDP composition by sector: agriculture: 0.1%, industry: 51.1%, services: 48.8% (2016 est.)

    Military expenditure/GDP: 10% (2005)

    Fiscal year: 4.1 ~ next year 3.31

    Life expectancy: total population: 78.7 years, male: 76.7 years, female: 80.8 years (2016 est.)

    Illiteracy: total population: 2.7%, male: 2.6%, female: 3.2% (2016 est.)

 

 

  

  

   

   

 

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Ruled by the Al Thani family since the mid-1800s, Qatar within the last 60 years transformed itself from a poor British protectorate noted mainly for pearling into an independent state with significant oil and natural gas revenues. The continuous siphoning off of petroleum revenue through the mid-1990s by Qatari amirs permanently residing in Europe had stunted Qatar’s economic growth. Former amir HAMAD bin Khalifa Al Thani, who overthrew his father in a bloodless coup in 1995, ushered in wide-sweeping political and media reforms, unprecedented economic investment, and a growing Qatari regional leadership role, in part through the creation of the pan-Arab satellite news network Al-Jazeera and Qatar's mediation of some regional conflicts.

In the 2000s, Qatar resolved its longstanding border disputes with both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and by 2007 had attained the highest per capita income in the world. Qatar did not experience domestic unrest or violence like that seen in other Near Eastern and North African countries in 2010-11, due in part to its immense wealth. Since the outbreak of regional unrest, however, Doha has prided itself on its support for many of these popular revolutions, particularly in Libya and Syria, although to the detriment of Qatar’s relations with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which temporarily recalled their respective ambassadors from Qatar.

In mid-2013, HAMAD transferred power to his 33 year-old son, the current Amir TAMIM bin Hamad - a peaceful abdication rare in the history of Arab Gulf states. TAMIM oversaw a warming of Qatar’s relations with Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE by later in 2014 and prioritized improving the domestic welfare of Qataris, including establishing advanced healthcare and education systems and expanding the country's infrastructure in anticipation of Doha's hosting of the 2022 World Cup. (CIA World Factbook)

 

 


Source: S.M. Hong, Islamic Economy & Finance (2009),  Middle Eastern Economy (1997), Middle Eastern Economics (1991), BBC, Country Profile, CIA, The World Fact Book & WIKIPEDIA , 2017, Population Density, GeographyIQ.com  and GeographyIQ.

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