• Gross National income (GNI):  3.2% • Gross Saving of the Qatar:  -1.0% • Household Final Consumption Expenditure (HFCE):  6.7% • Government Final Consumption Expenditure (GFCE):  5.2% • Gross Capital Formation (GCF) or Gross Investment:  8.1% • Exports of Goods and Services (F.O.B)-EXP: 3.5% • Imports of Goods and services (F.O.B)-IMP:  13.2%    Quarterly Sequence of Accounts for the total economy of Qatar: All the United Nations (UN) member countries are expected to prepare and present their National Accounts Statistics (NAS) as per the accounting structure and framework recommended in the System of National Accounts (SNA). The 2008 SNA being the latest in series consists of a consistent, coherent, and integrated set of macroeconomic accounts, balance sheets and tables based on a set of internationally agreed concepts, definitions, classifications and accounting rules. It provides a comprehensive accounting framework within which economic data can be compiled and presented in a format that is designed for purposes of economic analysis, decision-taking and policy-making. The accounts themselves present in a condensed way a great mass of detailed information, organized according to economic principles and perceptions, about the working of the economy. Fundamental to the SNA is the identity that goods and services produced in the economy must be consumed, used for capital formation or exported while all goods and services used within the economy must be produced in the economy or imported. This basic identity is elaborated within the SNA into a sequence of interconnected flow accounts linked to different types of economic activity taking place within a given period of time, together with balance sheets that record the values of the stocks of assets and liabilities held by institutional units or sectors at the beginning and end of the period. The main purpose of Quarterly National Accounts (QNA) is to provide a picture of current economic developments that is more timely than that provided by the Annual National Accounts (ANA) and more comprehensive than that provided by individual short-term indicators. Within the available source data, MDPS for the first time have initiated the release of key quarterly sequence of accounts for the total economy. Table (1) in the file below presents the same for the Q1, 2014 with a comparison to the estimates of Q4, 2013 and Q1, 2013. National Income: The quarterly estimates of Gross National Income (GNI), [which is derived by adding the net property income from the rest of world to the GDP of the nation], for the Q1, 2014 is placed at 183.58 Bn QR which shows an increase of 3.2%, when compared to the GNI estimate of Q1, 2013 [177.95 Bn QR]. It may be seen from the Table (1) in the file below that the net outflow of property income from Qatar has shown a decline of 7.4%. That has led to the rise in the National income [on Y-o-Y basis] of 3.2% as against the GDP rise of 2.6% in GDP in Q1, 2014 over Q1, 2013. On quarter-on-quarter basis, GNI in Q1, 2014 has gone up by 4% when compared to the GNI of Q1, 2013. The comparable rise in GDP has been 2.1% during the same period. The higher rise in GNI [Table 1 may be referred] in comparison to GDP increase is due to the sharper fall of 26.9% noticed in net property income from the rest of the world in Q1, 2014 over Q4, 2013.  Read more