There are approximately 2,108,970 Internet users in Qatar as of 2016, when the population was just on its way to 2.3 million—more than 90% of the total headcount that time.

In a fresh update by the Ministry of Development Planning and Statistics, population in Qatar towards the end of August has skyrocketed to a total of roughly 2,562,000 with an increase of 4.5% from last July, and 4.7% from the same period last year.

Now the next question is: How many from this more than 2.5M people in Qatar uses the internet on a daily basis? Is it credible to say that as the population grows, the number of those who can access the web also does?

Let's a take a look at these 2017 Index Mundi figures...

0-14 years: 12.63% (Male 148,021 / Female 144,252)
15-24 years: 12.35% (Male 206,055 / Female 79,859)
25-54 years: 70.59% (Male 1,359,383 / Female 274,334)
55-64 years: 3.42% (Male 61,051 / Female 18,203)
65 years and over: 1% (Male 14,932 / Female 8,217)

As you may have noticed, the biggest chunk comes from the middlers (25-54 years), who for sure spends most of their day using the internet. Then we have the newly-born and early teenagers (0-14 years) on second place. This batch is debatable—same as those inside the 55-64 age bracket—as toddlers and infants are not usually that exposed yet to such but some kids as young as 4 years are the exact opposites, so we're taking at least 11% from them.

The millenials, on the other hand, are an easy fit into this category. Meaning, we're left with more than 95% of Qatar's entire population to be internet users, a match with North Western University Qatar's (NU-Q) findings in a recent Media Use in the Middle East survey.

Listed below are some of the coolest and most interesting internet figures from the NU-Q:

93%

of Qataris use WhatsApp—the most used social media platform in the country.

70%

of Qataris use Instagram (among the highest penetration rates in the world)

64%

of Qataris use Snapchat—among the highest penetration rates in the world). Despite the social media platform's widespread backlash due to its latest software update.

43.2

average hours that a Qatari spend face-to-face with their families each week despite the increased time spent online.

71%

of Qataris said that they're unwilling to pay for news content in 2017

Nearly 1/3

of Qataris said they do not trust mass media (as of 2017), more than double those who expressed this view in 2015.

33%

of Qataris believe people benefit from getting news from foreign news media (as of 2017)—a decrease from 56% in 2015

13%

of Qataris believe that international news organisations are biased against the Arab World (as of 2017)—a sharp rise from 2015's 7%.

81%

of Qataris think more should be done to preserve cultural traditions (as of 2016)—a huge drop from 2014's 94%.

41%

of Qataris identify themselves as culturally conservative with a decrease in their numbers from 75% in 2015.

The above-mentioned survey by NU-Q has been conducted annually since 2013. Each year the survey has been conducted among 1000+ residents in each participating country.

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Sonkie

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