Qatar is one of the top 10 countries for investment.
According to US News & World Reports‘ most recent ‘Best Countries in the World’ rankings, Qatar ranked 9th in attracting foreign investment and 25th overall, up one spot from 2023. This big milestone allowed the country to move up four places year on year in the attribute that examines where respondents would prefer to live, indicating that Qatar is attracting increasing interest in this sector.
“Qatar performed well in the 2024 rankings, entering the top 25 overall. It ranks in the top 30 for six of the ten sub-rankings, including third place in movers, which evaluates a country’s possibilities for future growth based on characteristics such as how prepared it is to weather global economic shocks.”
– Elliott Davis, Analyst and Reporter at US News & World Report’s Best Countries
Qatar, on the other hand, ranks in the bottom half, at number 58 on the ‘Start a Business’ list, 23 in entrepreneurship, and 34 in ‘Business Opportunities’.
“It did not rise or fall in the entrepreneurship sub-ranking, but Qatar did jump 37 spots in ‘Open for Business’, which represented the largest sub-ranking increase among all countries we assessed,” noticed Davis.
Qatar also shown a strong performance by leaping three places in the ‘Power’ sub-ranking, which, along with an improved ‘Open for Business’ category, is a clear indicator of respondents’ and investors’ views on the country’s improvement in global standing.
Switzerland topped the overall ‘Best Countries’ list in 2024 for the third year in a row, followed by Japan and the United States.
