Aside from the Eid al-Adha holiday, growth in the country’s population would help sustain the upward trend of remittance outflow from Qatar this September, according to an industry executive.
Qatar's population went up marginally in August compared to July as more expatriates have started returning from their vacation.
Qatar’s population at the end of last month fell by around 6% as compared to June but increased by 9.73% from July 2015, according to data released by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics (MDPS).
Population in Qatar at end of June 2016 declined 4.3% to 2,477,113, from that of May 31, 2016 while increasing 5.7 % from that of June 2015.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday urged Turkish women to have at least three children, saying a woman's life was "incomplete" if she failed to have offspring.
The country's population has shot up to all-time high of 2,559,000, according to the latest figures released by the Ministry of Statistics and Development Statistics.
The number of vehicles registered in Qatar in January fell 15% month-on-month to 8,767, the Ministry of Development Planning & Statistics has said in a report.
Qatar has a workforce of about 1.7mn, based on the population figures of November 2015, an expert on migration, ethics and human rights has said.
Qatar's population, which had fallen between November and December last year by nearly 42,000, has shown a marginal rise, as per the latest figures issued by the statistics authorities.
A state-run Chinese newspaper on Friday excoriated population authorities for ‘superstition’ after they blamed the inauspicious Year of the Sheep for births falling in 2015 despite a loosening of the one-child policy.
