Church of Melanesia 32.8%, Roman Catholic 19%, South Seas Evangelical 17%, Seventh-Day Adventist 11.2%, United Church 10.3%, Christian Fellowship Church 2.4%, other Christian 4.4%, other 2.4%, unspecified 0.3%, none 0.2% (1999 census)
Muslim 77.5%, Christian 8.5%, other 14% (2004 census)
Languages
Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English (official; but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population); 120 indigenous languages
Arabic (official), English commonly used as a second language
Exports
liquefied natural gas (LNG), petroleum products, fertilizers, steel
External Debt
$137,000,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
Qatari rials (QAR) per US dollar - 3.64 (2008 est.), 3.64 (2007), 3.64 (2006), 3.64 (2005), 3.64 (2004)
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
10.000%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count
Location
Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea
Middle East, peninsula bordering the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia
Area
28,896 km sq
11,586 km sq
Coastline
5,313 km
563 km
Climate
tropical monsoon; few extremes of temperature and weather
arid; mild, pleasant winters; very hot, humid summers
