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Market Exchange Rate |
Qatari rials per US dollar - 3.6400 (fixed rate) |
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Currency |
Qatari rial (QAR) |
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Currency code: |
QAR |
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Inflation Rate at Consumer Prices |
2% (2001) |
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Unemployment rate: |
2.7% (2001) |
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Labour Force by Economic Sector of Activity (1999) |
Agriculture 1.5%, Industry and Services 98.5%. |
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Nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) |
purchasing power parity - $16.3 billion (2001 est.) |
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Real Gross Domestic Product Growth Rate |
5.6% (2001 est.) |
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Gross Domestic Product Per Capita (2001 est.) |
purchasing power parity - $21,200 |
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GDP - composition by sector: |
agriculture: 1% industry: 49% services: 50% (1996 est.) |
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Human Development Indicator (HDI), UNDP figures 1999 |
Qatar is ranked 41among the 174 countries selected in the Human Development Report 1999 of the UNDP. |
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Labor force |
280,122 (1997 est.) |
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Budget: |
revenues: $5 billion expenditures: $4.8 billion, including capital expenditures of $900 million (FY01/02 est. ) |
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Industries |
crude oil production and refining, fertilizers, petrochemicals, steel reinforcing bars, cement |
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Electricity - production: |
9.2 billion kWh (2000) |
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Electricity - production by source |
fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0% |
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Electricity - consumption |
8.556 billion kWh (2000) |
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Agriculture - products: |
fruits, vegetables poultry, dairy products, beef fish |
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Major Trading Partners |
IMPORTS UK 10%, Japan 8%, Germany 6%, Italy 6%, US 6% (1998) , EXPORTS Japan 43%, Singapore 8%, South Korea 6%, US 4%, UAE 2% (1999) |
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Exports |
$11 billion f.o.b. (2001 est.) |
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Exports - commodities |
petroleum products 80%, fertilizers, steel |
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Imports: |
$3.5 billion f.o.b. (2001 est.) |
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Imports - commodities |
machinery and transport equipment, food, chemicals |
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Debt - external: |
$13.1 billion (2000 est.) |
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Fiscal year |
1 April - 31 March |
