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| Qatar - During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Qatari economy was crippled by a continuous siphoning off of petroleum revenues by the amir who had ruled the country since 1972. He was overthrown in a bloodless coup by his own son in 1995. Oil and natural gas revenues enable Qatar to have a per capita income not far below the leading industrial countries of Western Europe. |  | QATAR | | People | | Population: | 744,483 (July 2000 est.) | | Population growth rate: | 3.35% (2000 est.) | | Birth rate: | 16.07 births/1,000 population (2000 est.) | | Death rate: | 4.19 deaths/1,000 population (2000 est.) | | Sex ratio: | total population:1.05 male(s)/female | | Infant mortality rate: | 22.14 deaths/1,000 live births (2000 est.) | | Total fertility rate: | 3.25 children born/woman (2000 est.) | | Life expectancy at birth: | total population:72.37 years
male :69.92 years
female:74.94 years (2000 est.) | | Literacy: | definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population:79.4%
male:79.2%
female:79.9% (1995 est.) | | Religions: | Muslim 95% | | Nationality: | noun: Qatari(s)
adjective:Qatari | | Languages: | Arabic (official), English commonly used as a second language | | Government | | Country name: | conventional long form :State of Qatar
conventional short form:Qatar
| | Data code: | QA | | Government type: | traditional monarchy | | National capital: | Doha | | Independence: | 3 September 1971 (from UK) | | National holiday: | Independence Day, 3 September (1971) | | Legal system: | discretionary system of law controlled by the amir, although civil codes are being implemented; Islamic law is significant in personal matters | | Suffrage: | suffrage is limited to municipal elections | | Judicial branch: | Court of Appeal | | Flag description: | maroon with a broad white serrated band (nine white points) on the hoist side | | Economy | | GDP: | purchasing power parity - $12.3 billion (1999 est.) | | GDP - real growth rate: | 1.5% (1999 est.) | | GDP - per capita: | purchasing power parity - $17,000 (1999 est.) | | GDP - composition by sector: | agriculture :1%
industry:49%
services:50% (1996 est.) | | Inflation rate - consumer price index: | 2% (1999) | | Labor force: | total: 233,000 (1993 est.)
| Unemployment rate: | NA% | | Budget: | revenues: $5 billion
expenditures:$4 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY99/00 est.) | | Industries: | crude oil production and refining, fertilizers, petrochemicals, steel reinforcing bars, cement | | Industrial production growth rate: | NA% | | Agriculture - products: | fruits, vegetables; poultry, dairy products, beef; fish | | Exports: | total value:$6.7 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
commodities: petroleum products 80%, fertilizers, steel
partners :Japan 50%, Singapore 12%, South Korea 9%, US, UAE (1997) | | Imports: | total value:$4.2 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
commodities:machinery and transport equipment, food, chemicals
partners:UK 25%, France 13%, Japan 10%, US 9%, Italy 6% (1997) | | Debt - external: | $10 billion (1998 est.) | | Currency: | 1 Qatari riyal (QR) = 100 dirhams | | | Transportation | | Railways: | total: 0 km | | Highways: | total: 1,230 km | Pipelines: | crude oil 235 km; natural gas 400 k | | Ports and harbors: | Doha, Halul Island, Umm Sa'id | | Transnational Issues | | Disputes - international: | the territorial dispute with Bahrain over the Hawar Islands and the maritime boundary dispute with Bahrain are currently before the International Court of Justice (ICJ); June 1999 agreement has furthered the goal of definitively establishing the border with Saudi Arabia | - Most details quoted from CIA World Factbook
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