Qatar
State of Qatar
- Region
- Asia · Western Asia
- Capital
- Doha
- Population
- 2,972,215 (2025)
- Government
- absolute monarchy
- Currency
- Qatari riyal (QAR)
- Official languages
- Arabic
- Spoken languages
- Arabic (official), English commonly used as a second language
- Written scripts
- Arabic
- Area
- 11,586 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- GCC, IMF, Arab League, OIC, OPEC, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Saudi Arabia
Political stability
82 / 100
Economic stability
73 / 100
Population stability
5 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- natural gas, crude petroleum, refined petroleum, plastics, fertilizers (2023)
- Key imports
- gas turbines, cars, aircraft, iron pipes, ships (2023)
- Natural resources
- petroleum, fish, natural gas
- Primary route
- Gulf and Red Sea hubs (Jebel Ali, Jeddah) on Asia–Europe lanes
- Secondary route
- Suez Canal corridor to the Mediterranean
The xin.bz view
- Qatar shows how fast commodity flows reverse: LNG exports have fallen roughly 96% with Hormuz impaired, and QatarEnergy is buying U.S. LNG cargoes to cover commitments to Japan, Korea, Taiwan, India, and Bangladesh — a Gulf exporter turned U.S. buyer, tightening the market Europe and Asia compete in.
- QAFCO is the world’s largest single-site urea producer and exporter (5.6M t/year urea, 3.8M t/year ammonia) — output that must clear the same impaired Hormuz corridor that carried about a third of global urea trade before the conflict.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Raising the Middle East's Food and Water Needs — While War Is Rewriting How Supply Gets In and Energy Gets Out
Gulf desalination and grain buying, Egypt's Nile and Suez loops, Hormuz fertilizer constraints, and $280B+ in reconstruction demand — the Middle East sits on both sides of the El Niño shock.
El Niño Is Arriving as Western Europe Rebuilds Its Water Reserves — While Energy and Arctic Trade Reprice the Atlantic Economy
The Rhine recovering from record lows, England 71% in drought, French crops down hard, Qatar's LNG collapse pushing Europe to U.S. gas, and Iceland and Greenland turning the Atlantic into Western Europe's organizing system.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Fertilizer Converts Energy and Mined Minerals Into Crop Yield — and Its Supply Chain Has Become a Strategic Chokepoint
Fertilizer deep dive — 216M t of nutrients produced against 197M t used, nitrogen tied to natural gas, Hormuz choking a third of urea trade, and why N, P, and K are irreplaceable in plant nutrition.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.