Qatar sees decline in population
Gulf Times
01 February 2009
Qatar sees decline in population
By Ramesh Mathew
THERE was a fall of more than 15,000 people in Qatar’s population as on December 31, 2008, compared to figures of November 30 last year, according to data furnished by Qatar Statistics Authority (QSA).
The QSA put Qatar’s population on December 31 as 15,53,729 against 15,69,174 on November 30, 2008.
The QSA has not attributed any specific reason for the fall in the country’s population.
According to the authority, the country’s population as on October 31 was 15,41,130.
The country recorded 14,720 births in 2008 while there were 1,750 deaths in the same year.
According to the December 31 figures, there were only 3,50,348 (approximately 29.11%) females in the country.
In the previous month, women accounted for 29.60% (3,58,618) of the population, the QSA records pointed out.
While there were 900 births in the month of December 2008, the previous month saw 858 births in the country’s hospitals, according to the report.
There were 456 females and 444 males among the newborns in December. Among the Qatari nationals, there were 339 new births, of which 171 (50.44%) were females.
Among the non-Qataris (no separate break-ups of nationalities were given), there were 561 births, of which 285 (50.80%) were females.
The month of December 2008 witnessed the death of 147 people, it said. While 96 of them were non-Qataris, 51 were nationals. Among the dead were 105 (71.5%) men.
Among the other nationalities, 79 (82.30%) of the dead were males, while among Qataris, the figure was more or evenly matched, with 25 females and 26 males, the records pointed out.
In the month of November 2008, there were 534 births among non-Qataris and 324 among the nationals.
Among the other nationals, females and males were 262 and 272 respectively while among the Qataris 155 females and 169 males were born in the month, the records revealed.
A total of 150 people died in the month of November. Among them, 96 were from other nationalities, of which 75 were men. While among the Qataris, 17 females and 37 males died in the month, according to the QSA report.
The report also said there were 9,397 medical staff working in the government sector. It said 22,330 surgeries were carried out at the hospitals under the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) in the year 2008.
Meanwhile, the QSA has made significant progress in its preparations for conducting a national census in April 2010, a top official has said.
QSA president HE Sheikh Hamad bin Jabor bin Jassim al-Thani said the census would include the population and details about the country’s housing and establishments.
“This census is significant for the country’s official policy makers and, particularly, in facilitating and measuring Qatar’s progress towards the National Vision 2030.”
Strange use of commas......
Hard to believe......
I'm running scared now Heero.
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Oh here we go! Goes from a thread that's interesting, and we knew what they meant, really, to bashing people.
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
Well, in glass half full land where you obviously don't live, one could think of it as a learning experience to understand a different approach to writing large numbers.
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And yes, diamond. I accepted the fact that until now, the effectivity of journalism in this region seems a bit biased...and still dizzy over the numbers since this morning when I read the paper.
It's better if he meant 1.5 million than 15 crores.
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
I think heero thrives on the negative attention he attracts by being so annoying.
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only 1,750 deaths.....i'm guessing 1,749 was probably due to dangerous driving.
Stop picking hairs, we may not know the numbering system but we knew what they meant!
It's like if somebody mispronounces a word; I for the life of me still can't say 'stamina', is that spelt correctly for a start?
People in the press are open to mistakes like the rest of us. Don't make a big thing of it. He wrote an artile, we knew what he meant. Let it be.
Omigod, you are the dizzy limit. Please exercise your few brain cells more often and make a concerted effort to understand others comments so you can make a reply that is related to what they have said. Please.
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So I should go to the Peninsula instead because I'm not Indian?
Even my fellow Indian friends and colleagues around here don't even use that numbering system in this place.
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
Wise up hero. Are you that thick you don't understand what gloopyg and I mean?
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The topic is about the population of Qatar...but NOT on a certain nationality.
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
Shock, horror hero! didn't you notice the byline - Ramesh Mathews. Indian written and proof read. Nothing wrong with that at all. We all understand the figures. Calm down.
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The newspaper is written by Indians for Indians, even though it is supposed to be for all. This is just the way it is. We knew what they meant. Lets not get picky!
Earlier at the office when I was reading the Gulf Times newspaper I got confused by the full article of the headline also. Then I thought the numbering system looks familiar. So i asked my Indian supervisor how the crore and the lakh numbering system format is written:
1,00,00,000
(crore/ten lakh/lakh/ten thousands/thousands/hundreds/tens/ones)
God they didn't even thought that there're plenty of readers who's used to the 'universal' numbering system around here!
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
15,53,729 against 15,69,174 on November 30, 2008.
Did they mean 15,530,729! That seems high!
of the article, or the proof reader, knew how to write numbers properly:
15,53,729 should read 1,553,729 mind you I cant remember if we should include commas anymore or just leave spaces.
But 15,53,729 makes no sense.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
expats voting with their feet...?