Qatar Economy - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

GNP: $7.6 billion (1983); $27,000 per capita (1983)

Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, fish

Agriculture farming and grazing on small scale; commercial fishing increasing in importance, most food imported; rice and dates staple diet

Major industries: oil production and refining; crude oil production averaged 399,000 b/d (1984); oil revenues accrued $3.1 billion (est.) in FY85, representing 95% of government revenue

Electric power: capacity 1,304,200 kW (1985); 4.569 billion kWh produced (1985), 15,650 kWh per capita

Exports: $4.5 billion (f.o.b.. 1984), of which petroleum accounted for $4.2 billion

Imports: $1,0 billion (c.i.f., 1984)

Budget: (FY85) revenues, $2.7 billion; expenditures, $4.3 billion

Monetary conversion rate: 3.64 Qatar riyals=US$l (October 19851

Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March

Communications Railroads: none

Highways: 840 km total; 490 km bituminous; 350 km gravel; undetermined mileage of earth tracks

Pipelines: crude oil, 235 km; natural gas, 400 km

Ports: 2 major (Doha, Musay'ld), 1 minor

Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft

Airfields: 3 total, 3 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways over 3,659 m, 2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: modern system centered in Doha; 96,000 telephones (37 per 100 popl.); 1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean satellite station; 1 Arab satellite station under construction; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; radio-relay to Saudi Arabia; submarine cable to Bahrain and UAE; 2 AM, 1 FM, 3 TV stations

NOTE: The information regarding Qatar on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Qatar 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Qatar 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.