Qatar
State of Qatar
- Capital
- Doha
- Region
- Western Asia
- Population, 2025
- 3.0 million
- Currency
- QAR
- Area
- 11,586 km²
Across Qatar's 9 priced cities, one person needs about $2,849 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $3,322.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%67
- Safety20%85
- Health care15%74
- Climate10%35
- Air quality10%16
- Connectivity10%84
- Cost10%12
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #65
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Social security, employee
- 0%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 0%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 84.8
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 15.2
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2022
- 0.1
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #25 worldwide
- 237
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #2 worldwide
- 536
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +14%
Cities in Qatar
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Al-wukayr | 68 | 53.1 | $891 | $5,484 | 371.1 | 5.1K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Al Rayyan | 67 | 47.0 | $1,325 | $4,387 | 247.0 | 272.5K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 3Al Wakrah | 66 | 52.0 | $1,076 | $4,296 | 264.5 | 26.4K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 4Khor | 64 | 54.8 | $905 | $2,879 | 190.5 | 18.9K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 5The Pearl-Qatar | 62 | 57.2 | $2,163 | $7,312 | 276.6 | — | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 6Dukhan | 62 | 60.0 | $1,391 | $4,113 | 205.2 | 7.3K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 7Lusail | 58 | — | — | — | — | 198.6K | Low confidence |
| 8Doha | 56 | 59.3 | $1,958 | $3,322 | 133.3 | 344.9K | High confidence, 109 contributors |
| 9Al-kir'anah | 53 | 58.5 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 10Umm Salal 'ali | 53 | 60.0 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |