- A monthly decrease in total net tonnage of vessels by 29.9% in April 2024 compared to previous month.
- A monthly decrease in the traded shares value, amounting to 9.5% compared to March 2024.
- A monthly decrease in total traffic accident deaths by 23.1% in April 2024 compared to March 2024.
The National Planning Council has released the 124th issue of (Qatar; Monthly Statistics) bulletin; a series of statistical newsletters released on a monthly basis. In this issue, we highlighted the most important statistical changes that occurred in the country during April 2024 in addition to extracts from the results of the 2020 Census.
One of the prominent changes in this issue is the decrease in total number and values of properties sold at a monthly rate of 25.0% and 15.9%, respectively (compared to March 2024). This month also witnessed a decrease in the General Market Index (point) by 1.2% (compared to March 2024). In addition, new driving licenses decreased at a monthly rate of 22.0% (compared to March 2024), as well as the total number of new registered vehicles by 10.5% (compared to March 2024).
The demographic statistics revealed that the total population of Qatar has increase from 2.956 million at April 2023 to 3.099 million at April 2024 at an annual increase rate of change of 4.8%, and decreased monthly by 0.7% (compared to March 2024).
Regarding to Vital Statistics, 2496 live births have been registered during April 2024. Also, an increase in the total Qatari live births by 17.7% comparing to last month. On the other hand, 221 deaths were recorded during the same period, a decrease of 3.1% compared to March 2024.
Moreover, April 2024 witnessed a monthly increase of 1.9% of total marriage contracts and 13.7% monthly decrease of total divorce certificates. The total number of marriage contracts reached 328 marriage contracts, while the total number of divorce certificates reached 120 cases.
As for the Social Security statements, reached 78 Million Qatari Riyals in April 2024, for 14407 beneficiaries, Recording a monthly increase of 0.6% for the value of social security and a monthly increase of 0.2% for the number of beneficiaries of Social Security.
As for the Banking Sector; Total Broad Money Supply (M2) recorded about 736 Billion Qatari Riyals during April 2024, an annual increase of 5.7% compared with April 2023. On the other hand, cash equivalents; including Commercial Bank Deposits, attained for 1025 Billion Qatari Riyals during April 2024. The figure has recorded an annual increase of 6.3% compared to April 2023, when deposits recorded approximately 964 Billion Qatari Riyals.
Regarding the data of buildings permits issued, the total number of permits has reached 466 permits during April 2024, recording a monthly decrease of 37.6% and an annual increase of 21.7%.
The total number of registered new vehicles during April 2024 has reached 7011 new vehicles. The figure showed a monthly decrease of 10.5% and it showed an annual increase of 2.9%.
Traffic accidents cases without counting the accidents without injuries, a total of 762 traffic cases were recorded during April 2024, showing a monthly decrease of 5.2% and an annual decrease by 2.2%. Light injuries are accounted for most traffic accidents cases during the same month, with 93%, followed by severe injuries by 6%. However, 10 deaths were recorded, equivalent to only 1% of total traffic accidents cases.
As for tourism, the total number of inbound visitors reached about 382 thousand, recording a monthly increase of 16.3% (compared to March 2024) and recorded an annual increase of 17.9% (compared to April 2023). The highest number of visitors was from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) at 42%. As for visitors by type of port, the visitors via Air make up the highest percentage with 55% of the total number of visitors.
