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Bahrain vs Qatar

112 shared metrics.

BahrainLeads in 63

vs112 shared

QatarLeads in 49

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What matters for both sides

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Bahrain

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Identity

Formal name: Kingdom of Bahrain.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Bahrain's Dilmun Burial Mounds include about 11,774 ancient burial mounds.

UNESCO

Qatar

Quick notes before you compare the numbers.

Identity

Formal name: State of Qatar.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Qatar's high income is powered by a gas-and-oil-based economy.

CIA

Analysis

Bahrain leads in 63 of 112 shared metrics, while Qatar leads in 49.

Bahrain's FDI Inflows (% GDP) is 26.3x that of Qatar (5.7% of GDP vs 0.21% of GDP).

Bahrain's Youth Unemployment Rate is 8.7x that of Qatar (5.4% of youth labor force vs 0.56% of youth labor force).

Bahrain's Unemployment Rate is 7.8x that of Qatar (1.1% vs 0.13%).

Bahrain's Water Stress (%) is 7.7x that of Qatar (3.9K% vs 446.43%).

Bahrain's Population Density is 7.5x that of Qatar (2.0K /km² vs 231.16 /km²).

Key Comparisons

FDI Inflows (% GDP)Bahrain leads

Bahrain

5.7% of GDP

Qatar

0.21% of GDP

Youth Unemployment RateBahrain leads

Bahrain

5.4% of youth labor force

Qatar

0.56% of youth labor force

Unemployment RateBahrain leads

Bahrain

1.1%

Qatar

0.13%

Water Stress (%)Bahrain leads

Bahrain

3.9K%

Qatar

446.43%

Population DensityBahrain leads

Bahrain

2.0K /km²

Qatar

231.16 /km²

Firms Making Informal PaymentsBahrain leads

Qatar

Bahrain

$724,000,000

Qatar

$14,318,000,000

95% lower

Comparison of Bahrain and Qatar across 112 metrics
				Winner
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	5.7% of GDP	0.21% of GDP	2632% higher	Bahrain
Youth Unemployment Rate	5.4% of youth labor force	0.56% of youth labor force	869% higher	Bahrain
Unemployment Rate	1.1%	0.13%	775% higher	Bahrain
Water Stress (%)	3.9K%	446.43%	769% higher	Bahrain
Population Density	2.0K /km²	231.16 /km²	753% higher	Bahrain
Firms Making Informal Payments	5.6% of firms	0.68% of firms	726% higher	Bahrain
Firms with Female Top Manager	8.9% of firms	1.4% of firms	522% higher	Bahrain
Women in Parliament (%)	20%	4.4%	350% higher	Bahrain
Electoral Democracy Index	0.14	0.03	309% higher	Bahrain
Tourist Arrivals	1.91M	582.0K	228% higher	Bahrain
Freedom of Expression Index	0.17	0.06	213% higher	Bahrain
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	3.0 sites	1.0 sites	200% higher	Bahrain
Homicide Rate	0.20 per 100k	0.07 per 100k	183% higher	Bahrain
Government Debt (% GDP)	111.6% of GDP	46.7% of GDP	139% higher	Bahrain
Elderly Population (%)	3.9%	1.7%	130% higher	Bahrain
Imports (% GDP)	70.14% of GDP	31.62% of GDP	122% higher	Bahrain
Death Rate	2.9 per 1k	1.4 per 1k	101% higher	Bahrain
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	30 days/yr	15 days/yr	100% higher	Bahrain
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	4.0 gold medals	2.0 gold medals	100% higher	Bahrain
Tourism Revenue	$724,000,000	$14,318,000,000	95% lower	Qatar
Domestic Patents	3.0	47	94% lower	Qatar
Solar Electricity Share	0.26%	3.8%	93% lower	Qatar
Land Area	800 km²	11.5K km²	93% lower	Qatar
High-Tech Exports (%)	0.39%	2.8%	86% lower	Qatar
Air Passengers	5.73M	37.71M	85% lower	Qatar
GDP (Nominal)	$47,109,734,308.51	$219,162,637,362.64	79% lower	Qatar
Health Spending (% GDP)	3.8% of GDP	2.2% of GDP	76% higher	Bahrain
Scientific Publications	671.6	2.6K	75% lower	Qatar
Doctors (per 1,000)	0.74 per 1k	3.0 per 1k	75% lower	Qatar
Shipping Traffic	404.9K	1.54M	74% lower	Qatar
Total CO2 Emissions	37.97 Mt CO2e	135.27 Mt CO2e	72% lower	Qatar
Coastline Length	161 km	563 km	71% lower	Qatar
Irrigated Land	40 km²	130 km²	69% lower	Qatar
University Enrollment Rate	58.37%	35.09%	66% higher	Bahrain
GNI Per Capita	$28,090	$77,290	64% lower	Qatar
Beer Consumption	0.41 L/person/yr	0.25 L/person/yr	63% higher	Bahrain
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	5.9% of GDP	14.5% of GDP	59% lower	Qatar
Agricultural Land (%)	10.13%	6.4%	57% higher	Bahrain
Airports	3.0	7.0	57% lower	Qatar
Firms Asked for Bribes	4.3% of firms	9.8% of firms	56% lower	Qatar
Foreign Patents	326	722	55% lower	Qatar
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	1.7 per 1k	1.1 per 1k	55% higher	Bahrain
Military Spending	2.9% of GDP	6.5% of GDP	55% lower	Qatar
Electricity Carbon Intensity	902.24 gCO2/kWh	581.52 gCO2/kWh	55% higher	Bahrain
Merchant Fleet Size	184	123	50% higher	Bahrain
Infant Mortality	7.2 per 1k births	4.9 per 1k births	47% higher	Bahrain
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$66,941.24	$126,046.35	47% lower	Qatar
Women's Political Empowerment	0.57	0.39	46% higher	Bahrain
Dependency Ratio	29.15% of working-age pop.	20.12% of working-age pop.	45% higher	Bahrain
Political Corruption Index	0.48	0.33	44% higher	Bahrain
Child Mortality	8.6 per 1k births	6.0 per 1k births	43% higher	Bahrain
Broadband Access (%)	17 per 100 people	12 per 100 people	42% higher	Bahrain
Education Spending (% GDP)	1.9% of GDP	3.2% of GDP	42% lower	Qatar
CO2 Per Capita	24.27 t/person/yr	41.27 t/person/yr	41% lower	Qatar
Population	1.57M	2.57M	39% lower	Qatar
Water Withdrawal	0.16 B m³	0.25 B m³	38% lower	Qatar
Health Spending Per Capita	$1,110.68	$1,781.56	38% lower	Qatar
Electric Generating Capacity	7.03M kW	11.40M kW	38% lower	Qatar
Electricity Generation	36.17 TWh	58.64 TWh	38% lower	Qatar
Energy Use (Per Capita)	10.7K kg oil eq/person	16.7K kg oil eq/person	36% lower	Qatar
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	40.51 per 100k	62.4 per 100k	35% lower	Qatar
Teen Birth Rate	7.5 per 1k	5.7 per 1k	32% higher	Bahrain
Liberal Democracy Index	0.06	0.09	32% lower	Qatar
Inflation Rate	0.90%	1.3%	31% lower	Qatar
Birth Rate	12.08 per 1k	9.2 per 1k	31% higher	Bahrain
Highest Elevation	135 m	103 m	31% higher	Bahrain
Exports (% GDP)	87.67% of GDP	68.6% of GDP	28% higher	Bahrain
Insufficient Physical Activity	37.94% of adults	50.93% of adults	26% lower	Qatar
Food Waste per Person	183.29 kg/person/yr	145.02 kg/person/yr	26% higher	Bahrain
Protected Land (%)	11.7%	15.6%	25% lower	Qatar
Youth Population (%)	18.72%	15.07%	24% higher	Bahrain
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	58.5 µg/m³	75.66 µg/m³	23% lower	Qatar
Tobacco Use Prevalence	15.2% of adults	12.5% of adults	22% higher	Bahrain
Smoking Rate	15%	12.5%	20% higher	Bahrain
Alcohol Consumption	1.3 L/adult/yr	1.1 L/adult/yr	19% higher	Bahrain
Obesity Rate	37.19%	43.76%	15% lower	Qatar
Seafood Consumption per Person	18.75 kg/person/yr	21.98 kg/person/yr	15% lower	Qatar
Corruption Perceptions Index	50 pts	58 pts	14% lower	Qatar
Armed Forces Personnel	19.0K	22.0K	14% lower	Qatar
Fertility Rate	1.6 children/woman	1.9 children/woman	14% lower	Qatar
Road Traffic Death Rate	8.1 per 100k	7.3 per 100k	11% higher	Bahrain
All-Time Olympic Medals	8.0 medals	9.0 medals	11% lower	Qatar
GDP Growth Rate	2.6%	2.4%	10% higher	Bahrain
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	8.9 per 1M people	8.2 per 1M people	9% higher	Bahrain
Hypertension Prevalence	38.8% of adults	42.4% of adults	8% lower	Qatar
Credit Card Ownership	29.85% of adults	32.31% of adults	8% lower	Qatar
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	160 per 100 people	154 per 100 people	4% higher	Bahrain
Safe Drinking Water (%)	98.9%	95.35%	4% higher	Bahrain
Big Mac Price	$4.77	$4.67	2% higher	Bahrain
Human Development Index	0.90	0.89	1% higher	Bahrain
Median Age	32.9 years	33.2 years	1% lower	Qatar
Suicide Rate	4.7 per 100k	4.7 per 100k	1% lower	Qatar
Life Expectancy	81.3 years	82.4 years	1% lower	Qatar
Urban Population (%)	100%	99.32%	1% higher	Bahrain
Spirits Consumption	0.57 L/person/yr	0.57 L/person/yr	equal	Bahrain
Time Zones Count	2.0 time zones	2.0 time zones	equal	Bahrain
Coal Electricity Share	0%	0%	ranked higher	Bahrain
Wind Electricity Share	0%	0%	ranked higher	Bahrain
Forest Area	7.6 km²	0 km²	ranked higher	Bahrain
Forest Coverage (%)	0.95%	0%	ranked higher	Bahrain
Electricity Access (%)	100%	100%	equal	Bahrain
Renewable Energy (%)	0%	0%	ranked higher	Bahrain
Internet Users (%)	100%	100%	equal	Bahrain
Sanitation Access (%)	100%	99.94%	equal	Bahrain
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	0 kWh/person	19.4K kWh/person	ranked lower	Qatar
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Bahrain
Lowest Elevation	0 m	0 m	ranked higher	Bahrain
Land Border Length	0 km	87 km	ranked lower	Qatar
Official Languages Count	1.0	1.0	equal	Bahrain
Firms Hit by Power Outages	15.22% of firms	0% of firms	ranked higher	Bahrain
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 100k people	0.23 per 100k people	ranked lower	Qatar
Border Neighbors	0	1.0	ranked lower	Qatar

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Analysis

Bahrain leads in 63 of 112 shared metrics, while Qatar leads in 49.

Bahrain's FDI Inflows (% GDP) is 26.3x that of Qatar (5.7% of GDP vs 0.21% of GDP).

Bahrain's Youth Unemployment Rate is 8.7x that of Qatar (5.4% of youth labor force vs 0.56% of youth labor force).

Bahrain's Unemployment Rate is 7.8x that of Qatar (1.1% vs 0.13%).

Bahrain's Water Stress (%) is 7.7x that of Qatar (3.9K% vs 446.43%).

Bahrain's Population Density is 7.5x that of Qatar (2.0K /km² vs 231.16 /km²).

Key Comparisons

FDI Inflows (% GDP)Bahrain leads

Bahrain

5.7% of GDP

Qatar

0.21% of GDP

Youth Unemployment RateBahrain leads

Bahrain

5.4% of youth labor force

Qatar

0.56% of youth labor force

Unemployment RateBahrain leads

Bahrain

1.1%

Qatar

0.13%

Water Stress (%)Bahrain leads

Bahrain

3.9K%

Qatar

446.43%

Population DensityBahrain leads

Bahrain

2.0K /km²

Qatar

231.16 /km²

Firms Making Informal PaymentsBahrain leads

Bahrain

5.6% of firms

Qatar

0.68% of firms

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

5.7% of GDP

0.21% of GDP

Youth Unemployment Rate

5.4% of youth labor force

0.56% of youth labor force

Unemployment Rate

1.1%

0.13%

Water Stress (%)

3.9K%

446.43%

Population Density

2.0K /km²

231.16 /km²

Firms Making Informal Payments

5.6% of firms

0.68% of firms

Firms with Female Top Manager

8.9% of firms

1.4% of firms

Women in Parliament (%)

20%

4.4%

Electoral Democracy Index

0.14

0.03

Tourist Arrivals

1.91M

582.0K

Freedom of Expression Index

0.17

0.06

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

3.0 sites

1.0 sites

Homicide Rate

0.20 per 100k

0.07 per 100k

Government Debt (% GDP)

111.6% of GDP

46.7% of GDP

Elderly Population (%)

3.9%

1.7%

Imports (% GDP)

70.14% of GDP

31.62% of GDP

Death Rate

2.9 per 1k

1.4 per 1k

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

30 days/yr

15 days/yr

All-Time Olympic Gold Medals

4.0 gold medals

2.0 gold medals

Tourism Revenue

$724,000,000

$14,318,000,000

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Youth Unemployment Rate

Unemployment Rate

Water Stress (%)

Population Density

Firms Making Informal Payments

Firms with Female Top Manager

Women in Parliament (%)

Electoral Democracy Index

Tourist Arrivals

Freedom of Expression Index

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Homicide Rate

Government Debt (% GDP)

Elderly Population (%)

Imports (% GDP)

Death Rate

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

All-Time Olympic Gold Medals

Tourism Revenue

Domestic Patents

Solar Electricity Share

Land Area

High-Tech Exports (%)

Air Passengers

GDP (Nominal)

Health Spending (% GDP)

Scientific Publications

Doctors (per 1,000)

Shipping Traffic

Total CO2 Emissions

Coastline Length

Irrigated Land

University Enrollment Rate

GNI Per Capita

Beer Consumption

Current Account Balance (% of GDP)

Agricultural Land (%)

Airports

Firms Asked for Bribes

Foreign Patents

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

Military Spending

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Merchant Fleet Size

Infant Mortality

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

Women's Political Empowerment

Dependency Ratio

Political Corruption Index

Child Mortality

Broadband Access (%)

Education Spending (% GDP)

CO2 Per Capita

Population

Water Withdrawal

Health Spending Per Capita

Electric Generating Capacity

Electricity Generation

Energy Use (Per Capita)

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Teen Birth Rate

Liberal Democracy Index

Inflation Rate

Birth Rate

Highest Elevation

Exports (% GDP)

Insufficient Physical Activity

Food Waste per Person

Protected Land (%)

Youth Population (%)

Air Pollution (PM2.5)