Country comparison: United Kingdom / Qatar

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

General information

	United Kingdom	Qatar
Region:	Northern Europe	Western Asia
Area:	243,610 km²	11,610 km²
National language:	English	Arabic
Government form:	Parliamentary constitutional monarchy	Absolute monarchy
Independent since:	1066 AD	1971 AD
Capital:	London	Doha

Population

Details for the United Kingdom and Qatar

	United Kingdom	Qatar
Population:	67,327,000	2,688,000
Inhabitants/km²:	276.4	231.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 79 years	Ø 78 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 83 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 40.6 years	Ø 33.7 years
Birth rate:	10.20 ‰	10.90 ‰
Death rate:	10.40 ‰	1.22 ‰
Migrationrate:	3.59 ‰	2.45 ‰

Quality of life

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

	United Kingdom	Qatar
Political stability:	77	85
Civil rights:	90	59
Health:	78	60
Climate:	6	61
Cost of Living:	34	72
Popularity:	44	38

Economy

Details for the United Kingdom and Qatar

	United Kingdom	Qatar
Currency:	Sterling pound (1 GBP = 100 Pence)	Qatari rial (1 QAR =100 Dirham)
Unemployment rate:	4.8 %	0.2 %
Inflation rate:	2.52 %	2.30 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	107.86 %	71.36 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	30.60 %	11.30 %
Average income:	44,480 US$	62,310 US$
Corruption index:	27 (good)	42 (moderate)

	GBR: total	per 1000 inh.	QAT: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	3,131,378 M US$	46.51 M US$	179,677 M US$	66.84 M US$
Gross national product:	2,994,732 M US$	44.48 M US$	167,494 M US$	62.31 M US$
Exported goods:	874,486 M US$	12.99 M US$	105,549 M US$	39.26 M US$
Imported goods:	898,719 M US$	13.35 M US$	61,204 M US$	22.77 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for the United Kingdom and Qatar

	GBR: total	per 1000 inh.	QAT: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	394,428 km	5.86 km	7,039 km	2.62 km
Harbours:	1,249	0.0186	129	0.0480
Passenger airports:	59	0.0009	1	0.0004

Energy balance

Details for the United Kingdom and Qatar

	GBR: total	per 1000 inh.	QAT: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	309.20 bn kWh	4.59 m kWh	37.24 bn kWh	13.85 m kWh
Energy production:	318.20 bn kWh	4.73 m kWh	39.78 bn kWh	14.80 m kWh
Energy export:	2.15 bn kWh	31,978.46 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	19.70 bn kWh	292,603.65 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	348.92 m t	5,182.50 t	91.97 m t	34,212.04 t

Telecommunication

Details for the United Kingdom and Qatar

	United Kingdom	Qatar
International dialing:	+44	+974
Internet domain:	.uk	.qa

	GBR total	GBR per 1000 inh.	QAT total	QAT per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	32,192,000	478	460,240	171
Mobile cellulars:	79,773,000	1185	3,876,499	1442
Internet server:	8,107,000	120	897	0
Internet users:	63,837,842	948	2,678,903	997
Broadband Internet:	27,738,000	412	311,888	116

Healthcare system

Details for the United Kingdom and Qatar

	United Kingdom	Qatar
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.46	1.25
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.81	0.00
Diabetes:	3.9 %	15.6 %
Tuberculosis:	0.06 ‰	0.42 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	78.0 %	77.0 %
Smokers:	15.4 %	11.8 %

Climate

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

	United Kingdom	Qatar
Daytime temperatures:	12.9 °C	33.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	7.0 °C	24.5 °C
Water temperature:	10.1 °C	26.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	85 %	59 %
Rain days:	13.0	0.6
Sunshine hours per day:	3.8	9.4

Native languages

	United Kingdom	Qatar
English:	97.3 %	n/a
Arabic:	n/a	40.7 %
Kymri:	0.9 %	n/a
Gaeli:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	1.7 %	59.3 %

Religions

	United Kingdom	Qatar
Islam:	4.4 %	77.5 %
Christianity:	67.0 %	8.5 %
Nondenominational:	25.7 %	n/a
Hinduism:	1.3 %	12.0 %
Jewry:	0.4 %	n/a
Sikhism:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	0.8 %	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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