Data source: World Population Prospect 2024

Tools used: Matplotlib

Explanations:

  • Male migrant workers: Qatar brings in large numbers of men for construction and industry.
  • Infrastructure boom: Major projects after 2005 drove a surge in male labor demand.
  • Solo migration: Most workers come alone, without families.
  • Few local births: Qataris are a small share of the population with low birth rates.
  • Fewer female jobs: Female migrants are fewer, mostly in domestic roles.

Full article: https://datacanvas.substack.com/p/qatar-gender-imbalance-population-2023

Posted by oscarleo0

24 comments

  1. Shorter explanation: Qatar, like most developed nations but more overtly and outrageously, has a fuck ton of enslaved illegal immigrants doing most manual labour

    EDIT: they are legal immigrants, they just have their passports stolen and are then worked to death

  2. Qatar the citizen population is 300K and then the other 2M are foreign labor — seven foreign workers for each citizen. It’s pretty crazy.

  5. Many of them are slaves, who had their passports stolen and have to live in hellish conditions they’ll never leave.

  6. That’s just slave labour from south and southeast Asia that’s skewing the data

  7. I’d argue that’s not correct.

    If there were .5x more males than females, it would be 40% females.

    You can say either there are 2.5x as many males as females or there are 1.5x more males than females. But you can’t mix and match and still be correct.

  11. To be clear, its an open secret that a lot of these migrant workers are slaves.

  12. But don’t be gay. You will be punished for loving somebody.

  13. The male immigrant workforce generally live in work camps, away from the bright lights and opulence of the big cities. They have no permanent residency rights, so will go home at the end of their contract, or when their employer kicks them out.

  16. Most of which is bonded labour without any rights !!

  18. I love how in the explanation we are totally forgetting the most basic thing that is **women rights**.

  20. They should allow women to marry up to 3 men, to compensate for the number difference.

  21. Reminds me of ancient Rome, where 2/3 of the population were male and 20-40% were slaves.

  23. Is the foreign labour even counted propperly? Could be a lot more extreme in reality.

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