Employment Rate / Qatar
Qatar Employment Rate
Qatar employment rate data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 86.90%.
COUNTRY: Qatar
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-09-07 05:09:26
GM ECONOMY RATING
Qatar · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
AA
84 / 100
Very strong stability
Fiscal stability
n/a
Macroeconomic stability
18.0 / 20
External stability
8.0 / 15
Financial robustness
13.0 / 15
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
10.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
5.0 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 76% of weighted inputs available.
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Qatar · employment rate data as percent of GDP.
Latest
86.90%
Previous
87.11%
Range avg.
87.16%
Rank
1
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CountryQatar
IndicatorEmployment Rate
86.90%2025 · Rank 1
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Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Qatar recorded 86.90% for Employment Rate in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 0.21 percentage points, from 87.11% to 86.90%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 10 available observations (87.16%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is higher overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 86.24% in 2021 and the high was 87.46% in 2022.
Comparison
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