Qatar market reached a volume of 45,000 vehicles in 2022
- Qatar is a country located near Saudi Arabia, which has nearly 2.5 million inhabitants. The automobile market represents on average between 40,000 and 100,000 new vehicles each year. In 2022, it reached 45,000 units, compared to 41,823 in 2021 and 37,411 in 2020, a year marked by the Covid-19 crisis. The year 2022 returns to the level of years just before the Covid crisis, such as 2019 (45,344 sales) or 2018 (45,463 sales).
- However, this figure is still less than half of the previous peak of almost 100,000 units reached in 2015. Like Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, Qatar's automobile market depends on fluctuating oil prices, since Qatar relies heavily on the production and sale of oil.
- The configuration of the market by brand has remained the same for several years, with a strong presence of Japanese brands, but the Chinese MG belonging to the SAIC group achieves an excellent 8th place in 2022 as in 2021.
- The best-selling model in 2022 was the Toyota Land Cruiser SUV, with 4,676 units (11.2% of the market) ahead of the Toyota Hilux pickup (2,240 units). Toyota places seven models in the Top 15 by model in 2022, which places the carmaker as the big leader of the Qatari market in 2022 (with 30.6% of the market).