Asia’s 2018 Richest and Poorest Countries

Qatar

Going by 2017 estimates, Qatar has a population of 2.6 million people with over 80% of the populace migrant labor mostly from South East Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Sri Lanka. Qatari citizens number about 313, 000 with the rest being expatriates and immigrants.

2016 figures by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) place Qatar fourth in the world in terms of GDP per capita. The Institute of International Finance estimates that Qatar’s GDP per capita in 2012 was $106,000 making it the wealthiest nation in the world. The same study estimated its GDP in the same year at $182 billion.

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Qatar had experienced exponential economic growth since 1940 when it started extracting and exporting natural gas. The country is currently one of the leading exporters of liquefied natural gas in the world. It was expected to invest more than $120 billion in the sector in the decade between 2012 and 2022.

Population ranking (world): 140th
Total GDP ranking (world): 56th
Per capita GDP ranking (world): 6th