Country comparison: United Arab Emirates / Qatar

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for the United Arab Emirates and Qatar. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	United Arab Emirates	Qatar
Region:	Western Asia	Western Asia
Area:	83,600 km²	11,610 km²
National language:	Arabic	Arabic
Government form:	Federation of autonomous monarchies	Absolute monarchy
Independent since:	1971 AD	1971 AD
Capital:	Abu Dhabi	Doha

Population

Details for the United Arab Emirates and Qatar

	United Arab Emirates	Qatar
Population:	9,365,000	2,688,000
Inhabitants/km²:	112.0	231.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 77 years	Ø 78 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 81 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 38.4 years	Ø 33.7 years
Birth rate:	10.31 ‰	9.82 ‰
Death rate:	1.87 ‰	1.31 ‰
Migrationrate:	-3.35 ‰	0.78 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	United Arab Emirates	Qatar
Political stability:	84	84
Civil rights:	64	59
Health:	65	59
Climate:	62	61
Cost of Living:	67	70
Popularity:	28	34

Economy

	United Arab Emirates	Qatar
Currency:	Arabic dirham (1 AED = 100 Fils)	Qatari rial (1 QAR =100 Dirham)
Unemployment rate:	2.8 %	0.1 %
Inflation rate:	4.83 %	5.00 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	67.22 %	69.54 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	15.90 %	11.30 %
Average income:	41,770 US$	62,310 US$
Corruption index:	33 (moderate)	42 (moderate)

	ARE: total	per 1000 inh.	QAT: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	415,022 M US$	44.32 M US$	179,677 M US$	66.84 M US$
Gross national product:	387,961 M US$	41.43 M US$	167,494 M US$	62.31 M US$
Exported goods:	308,500 M US$	32.94 M US$	105,549 M US$	39.26 M US$
Imported goods:	229,200 M US$	24.47 M US$	61,204 M US$	22.77 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for the United Arab Emirates and Qatar

	ARE: total	per 1000 inh.	QAT: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	4,080 km	0.44 km	7,039 km	2.62 km
Harbours:	623	0.0665	129	0.0480
Passenger airports:	8	0.0009	1	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for the United Arab Emirates and Qatar

	ARE: total	per 1000 inh.	QAT: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	308.12 bn kWh	32.90 m kWh	93.15 bn kWh	34.65 m kWh
Energy consumption:	122.39 bn kWh	13.07 m kWh	44.12 bn kWh	16.41 m kWh
Energy production:	129.41 bn kWh	13.82 m kWh	46.89 bn kWh	17.44 m kWh
Energy export:	257.00 m kWh	27,442.18 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	245.00 m kWh	26,160.83 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	188.86 m t	20,166.12 t	91.97 m t	34,211.07 t

Telecommunication

Details for the United Arab Emirates and Qatar

	United Arab Emirates	Qatar
International dialing:	+971	+974
Internet domain:	.ae	.qa

	ARE total	ARE per 1000 inh.	QAT total	QAT per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,242,982	240	460,240	171
Mobile cellulars:	18,237,084	1947	3,876,499	1442
Internet server:	337,804	36	897	0
Internet users:	9,365,145	1000	2,678,903	997
Broadband Internet:	3,573,055	382	311,888	116

Healthcare system

Details for the United Arab Emirates and Qatar

	United Arab Emirates	Qatar
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.38	1.25
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.39	0.00
Diabetes:	16.3 %	15.6 %
HIV:	0.22 %	0.13 %
Tuberculosis:	0.01 ‰	0.42 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	77.0 %	77.0 %
Smokers:	18.2 %	11.8 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: United Arab Emirates and Qatar

	United Arab Emirates	Qatar
Daytime temperatures:	34.3 °C	33.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	23.0 °C	24.5 °C
Water temperature:	27.1 °C	26.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	61 %	59 %
Rain days:	1.0	0.6
Sunshine hours per day:	8.4	9.4

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	United Arab Emirates	Qatar
Arabic:	42.0 %	40.7 %
other:	58.0 %	59.3 %

Religions

	United Arab Emirates	Qatar
State religion:	Sunni Islam	Sunni Islam
Islam:	76.0 %	77.5 %
Hinduism:	3.6 %	12.0 %
Christianity:	9.0 %	8.5 %
other:	11.4 %	2.0 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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