Indian population in Qatar

15 Nov, 2009  Gov, Random

Oh my God… look at this horrendous article…

“The Indian population in Qatar has gone beyond 500,000. This was revealed by Deepa Gopalan Wadhwe, Indian Ambassador to Qatar at an event honouring a high level visiting Indian delegation, yesterday.

According to the latest figures from the Statistics Authority, the population of Qatar has reached 1,597,552 based on data collected on August 31, 2009.

This could meen that Indians represent almost half of the whole population in Qatar.”

Source: The Peninsula via (ILQ News)

I am CONVINCED that they did this on purpose just to test their reader-base and to see whether they are intelligent enough.

1) The writer spelled mean as MEEN.

2) How the hell does 500,000 equal HALF the population of Qatar when the population is 1,597,552…..? Hint= (500,000/1,597,552) * 100 = 31.2%

Either way though, half a million is A LOT!

The Indian population in Qatar has gone beyond 500,000. This was revealed by Deepa Gopalan Wadhwe, Indian Ambassador to Qatar at an event honouring a high level visiting Indian delegation, yesterday.
According to the latest figures from the Statistics Authority, the population of Qatar has reached 1,597,552 based on data collected on August 31, 2009.
This could meen that Indians represent almost half of the whole population in Qatar.
  • http://qatariadventures.blogspot.com Sybil

    Seriously, Mr. Q…you gotta love these newspapers for all the blog fodder they provide. I’d say nothing surprises me anymore, but on the contrary, there’s a daily surprise waiting in the morning’s paper. If I just keep looking, no doubt, I will find it.

  • Rainbow

    And we have a lot to thank them for. Where would Qatar be without the hundreds of thousands of of Indians who contribute to it’s development.

  • Kei

    absolutely, that’s why ILQ’s been running the Labour charity for almost two years now :)

    Having said that, I’d like to see Qatar as a nation that is more diverse, relies on it’s own people (just as most countries do), and doesn’t have a 3 to 1 male to female ratio.

    side note: (the purpose of the blog post was to highlight the quality of the article :P )

  • Rainbow

    In that case, you’d better start advocating for huge families. A tiny country with big dreams needs a large population to support it.

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