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Unemployment rate in Qatar

How hard is it to have a job there?

Qatar's unemployment rate is 0.13 % — #1 of 124 countries on the atlas (lower is better). Period 2025.

0.13%

Checked 8 Sept 2026Period 2025

Source: World Bank open data (GDP growth, GDP/capita, unemployment, government debt)

Unemployment rate in Qatar over time

0.87 %0.48 %0.10 %0.87 % · 20000.10 % · 20192000: 0.87 %2001: 0.87 %2002: 0.87 %2003: 0.87 %2004: 0.87 %2005: 0.87 %2006: 0.87 %2007: 0.52 %2008: 0.31 %2009: 0.31 %2010: 0.45 %2011: 0.56 %2012: 0.48 %2013: 0.28 %2014: 0.20 %2015: 0.17 %2016: 0.15 %2017: 0.14 %2018: 0.11 %2019: 0.10 %2020: 0.14 %2021: 0.14 %2022: 0.13 %2023: 0.13 %2024: 0.13 %2025: 0.13 %2000201220250.13 %
26 official observations, 2000 → 2025. Every point is a published value — never interpolated.
Rank
#1 of 124
lower is better
Ranked behind
99 %
123 of 124 countries
Latest move
unchanged
since 2024
Below its peak
0.74 pp
peak 0.87 % in 2000
Full series
▼ 0.74 pp
since 2000

In Asia: #1 of 36vs median 5.25 %: −5.13 pp (better)

Among 124 countries

6 of 124 countries between 0.78 % and 1.53 %6 of 124 countries between 1.53 % and 2.28 %12 of 124 countries between 2.28 % and 3.03 %16 of 124 countries between 3.03 % and 3.78 %7 of 124 countries between 3.78 % and 4.53 %15 of 124 countries between 4.53 % and 5.28 %14 of 124 countries between 5.28 % and 6.02 %7 of 124 countries between 6.02 % and 6.77 %6 of 124 countries between 6.77 % and 7.52 %2 of 124 countries between 7.52 % and 8.27 %10 of 124 countries between 8.27 % and 9.02 %3 of 124 countries between 9.02 % and 9.77 %3 of 124 countries between 9.77 % and 10.52 %2 of 124 countries between 10.52 % and 11.27 %3 of 124 countries between 11.27 % and 12.02 %1 of 124 countries between 12.02 % and 12.77 %1 of 124 countries between 12.77 % and 13.51 %2 of 124 countries between 13.51 % and 14.26 %1 of 124 countries between 14.26 % and 15.01 %2 of 124 countries between 15.01 % and 15.76 %1 of 124 countries between 16.51 % and 17.26 %4 of 124 countries between 18.01 % and 18.76 %median 5.23 %Qatar: ahead of 99 % of the 124 countries with a published unemploymentQatar 0.13 % →0.78 %18.76 %
Half of all 124 countries sit between 3.30 % and 8.30 %. Qatar is ahead of 99 % of them. Axis trimmed to the 2nd–98th percentile; 5 values beyond it sit in the end bars.

The neighbourhood

#CountryUnemploymentvs Qatar
1 Qatar0.13 %—
2 Cambodia0.26 %+0.13 pp
3 Thailand0.78 %+0.65 pp
4 Bahrain1.10 %+0.97 pp
5 Moldova1.50 %+1.38 pp

Unemployment, share of the labour force (World Bank / ILO estimate).

How to read this figure

Share of the labour force without work but actively seeking it (World Bank / ILO harmonised estimate). People outside the labour force — students, carers, the discouraged — are not counted.

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