Healthcare in Qatar

Healthcare in Qatar is rather above average in a worldwide comparison.

Probably the most important indicator that can be used to summarize the efficiency of all measures is general life expectancy. In other words, the theoretical age that a newborn child could potentially reach today. At the moment, this age in Qatar is 78.2 years for men and 80.7 years for women. For comparison: worldwide life expectancy is about 7.1 years lower (men: 69.8 / women: 74.9 years).

A total of 1,807.15 USD per inhabitant is spent annually on health measures at state expense. This corresponds to approximately 2.9 percent of the gross domestic product. Internationally, this amount averages 1,115.01 USD (~ 9.8% of the respective GDP).

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Spread of COVID-19 in Qatar

Current incidence in the week ending 03/22/2023: 43.2 new infections per 100,000 population

Since the beginning of the pandemic until March 22nd, 2023, a total of 496,802 infected people and 688 deaths have been reported in Qatar.

The total of 496,802 infected people currently represents 17.24 percent of the total population. The number of new infections during the seven days preceding March 22nd, 2023, was 1,244, for a 7-day incidence of 43.2 cases per 100,000 population. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, this results in a mortality rate of about 0.1 percent in Qatar.

Current vaccination status

According to official WHO data, a total of 7.61 million vaccine doses have been administered as of March 19th, 2023. There are 2.85 million people who have received at least one vaccination (99.0 percent). The booster vaccination was received by 1.90 million people (66.1 percent).

2.85 million of these are considered fully vaccinated in Qatar (= 99.0 percent).
This makes Qatar one of the best-supplied countries in the world. The vaccination rate is higher in 7 countries.

Weight and size

	Male	Female
Body height	173 cm	160 cm
BMI	28.8	30.2
Weight	85.7 kg	77.6 kg

Diseases

	Qatar	Ø worldwide
Diabetes *	15.60%	8.81%
Tuberculosis	0.42‰	1.34‰
HIV / Aids	0.01%	0.03%

* The number of people suffering from diabetes refers only to inhabitants aged between 20 and 79 years.

Child vaccinations

	Qatar	Ø worldwide
Measles	99.0%	81.7%
Hepatitis B	0.10%	0.08%
DTP *	9.80%	8.14%

* DTP is a combined basic vaccination against diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus, which should be given to children up to the age of 23 months.

In Qatar, 11.8 percent of all over 15-year-olds are still smokers.
The number of underweight newborns is 7 percent.

Medical supplies

Medical care provided by doctors and hospitals in Qatar is below average compared to the world population. The country provides 1.3 hospital beds per 1,000 inhabitants. The global mean here is 2.9 beds. Within the EU, 4.6 beds are available for every 1,000 residents.

With about two physicians in Qatar, there are about zero doctors per 1000 inhabitants. Here again the comparison: worldwide this standard is 1.50 physicians per 1,000 inhabitants and in the EU is 3.57.

Through medical care, the mortality of major known diseases can be reduced to an above-average extent. For example, only about 11 percent of all people who suffer from cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or chylomicron retention disease (CRD) currently die.

Drinking water supply

About 96 percent of the population has access to an immediately available, running drinking water supply. At least via springs and wells within a maximum distance of 30 minutes or supplied water, 100 peprcent of the population is supplied with largely clean drinking water. The population is thus better served than average. In a global comparison, only about 74 percent of the population has direct access to tested and always available drinking water. Within the European Union, this share is 98 percent. Only in a few countries does the proportion fall below 10 percent.

Sources

The above data correspond to the information from the World Health Organization, Global Health Workforce Statistics, UNICEF, State of the World's Children, Childinfo, Global Health Observatory Data Repository and OECD. The case numbers for the spread of the COVID-19 come from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

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