Country Report Qatar June 2011

Data and charts: Quarterly data

	2009				2010
	1 Qtr	2 Qtr	3 Qtr	4 Qtr	1 Qtr	2 Qtr	3 Qtr	4 Qtr
Prices
Consumer prices (2001=100)	111.7	110.5	108.8	107.2	106.7	107.1	106.7	107.1
Consumer prices (% change, year on year)	1.4	-3.0	-7.4	-10.0	-4.5	-3.1	-1.9	-0.1
Sectoral trends, crude oil
Production (m barrels/day)	0.76	0.77	0.77	0.77	0.81	0.80	0.80	0.81
Marine 36, spot prices (US$/barrel)	45.5	60.8	65.4	69.5	68.7	71.8	73.8	85.6
Financial indicators
Exchange rate QR:US$ (av)	3.64	3.64	3.64	3.64	3.64	3.64	3.64	3.64
Exchange rate QR:US$ (end-period)	3.64	3.64	3.64	3.64	3.64	3.64	3.64	3.64
M1 (end-period; QR bn)	54,922	51,451	52,526	53,116	63,166	61,463	63,976	68,337
M1 (% change, year on year)	-7.1	-23.1	-14.3	4.4	15.0	19.5	21.8	28.7
M2 (end-period; QR bn)	179,460	188,174	208,724	215,082	242,292	233,097	249,440	264,716
M2 (% change, year on year)	2.0	-4.5	6.7	16.9	35.0	23.9	19.5	23.1
Foreign trade (US$ m)a
Exports fob	10,070	9,888	12,154	14,102	15,117	14,121	16,372	18,085
Imports cif	-6,055	-5,262	-5,486	-6,013	-5,426	-5,163	-6,302	-5,164
Trade balance	4,016	4,626	6,667	8,088	9,691	8,957	10,070	12,921
Foreign reserves (US$ m)
Reserves excl gold (end-period)	10,919	15,353	16,664	18,370	20,356	21,838	24,635	30,621
a DOTS estimate.
Sources: International Energy Agency (IEA), Monthly Oil Market Report; Oil Market Intelligence; IMF, International Financial Statistics; Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS).

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