Despite Qatarization efforts, the country’s workforce remains very much dependent on expat labor, newly released Permanent Population Committee statistics show.

Gulfnews reports:

Foreign workers represent 94.2 percent of the total economically active population in Qatar in 2010, statistics indicate…

Qatar’s economic boom has led to the recruitment of 1,271,000 foreigners and technology has not reduced the number of foreign workers recruited for selected jobs…

Women labour force amounts to 12.3 percent of the overall labour force while semi- skilled and unskilled workers make up around 75 percent of the total foreign workers…

The report said that around two thirds of Qatar’s population of 15 years and above were single.

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