Migration trends in Qatar
Middle East
2.3M people from around the world have made Qatar their home. That's 80.6% of the country population, arriving from 33 different countries
2.9M
Population
2.3M
Immigrants
19.8K
Emigrants
+2.3M
Inflow
Every 1st person in Qatar was born abroad
The #31 largest immigrant destination worldwide
Top corridors
The largest migration routes in Qatar
Where people move to
Key moments
How migration has changed since 1990
1990
212.4K immigrants · 11.4K emigrants
1995
- Without migration, the population would have declined
2000
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 42%
2005
- India overtook Indonesia as the largest source of new arrivals
- Without migration, the population would have declined
- Immigration from Indonesia declined sharply — 98.8K fewer migrants from there
2010
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 119%
- Surge of immigrants from India — 330.8K new arrivals
- Surge of immigrants from Pakistan — 88.9K new arrivals
- Surge of immigrants from Bangladesh — 88.5K new arrivals
2015
- Surge of immigrants from Nepal — 123.5K new arrivals
- Migration accounted for 95% of the country's population growth
Today
- Since 1990: 2.1M more foreign-born residents and roughly the same number of citizens living abroad