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Qatar welcomes 2,434 babies in June
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Doha: The total number of inbound visitors reached about 316,000 in June, recording a monthly increase of 0.9 percent (compared to May 2024) and an an...
Doha: The total number of inbound visitors reached about 316,000 in June, recording a monthly increase of 0.9 percent (compared to May 2024) and an annual increase of 12.2 percent (compared to June 2023).
The highest number of visitors was from GCC countries at 47 percent. As for visitors by type of port, the visitors via air make up the highest percentage with 55 percent of the total number of visitors.
The National Planning Council has released the 126th issue of Qatar Monthly Statistics bulletin. In this issue, the council highlighted the most important statistical changes that occurred in the country during June 2024 in addition to extracts from the results of the 2020 Census.
Among the notable changes in this issue is a monthly decrease in total number and value of sold properties by 11.5 percent and 11.2 percent, respectively (compared to May 2024). This was accompanied by a monthly decrease of 30.6 percent in the value of traded stocks,14 percent in total number of traffic accidents, and 17.6 percent in total number of traffic accident fatalities (compared to May 2024).
The demographic statistics revealed that the total population of Qatar has increase from 2.656 million at June 2023 to 2.858 million at June 2024 at an annual increase of 7.6 percent, and decreased monthly by 7.2 percent (compared to May 2024).