> dozens
Thousands in the overall construction boom.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90607440/at-least-6500-workers-h...
Thousands in the overall construction boom.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90607440/at-least-6500-workers-h...
> In August, Amnesty released a report that documented that at least 15 000 migrant workers had died since Qatar was awarded the World Cup hosting rights in 2010.
So, 15000 deaths over 11 years, or 1,363 deaths per year. Worth noting that this number does not make a distinction between people working in Qatar for the World Cup or just anyone working in Qatar.
Wikipedia says 2.3m expats as of 2017[1]. Putting the death rate at 0.59 per 1000 people per year (for 2017, the number of expats has been increasing since 2010, so the number would be higher for 2010, lower for 2021). This would put it at the very bottom of countries based on death rate[2]. (It's already at the very bottom for death rate, but here we're only looking at expats.)
TL;DR The number quoted has very little to do with the number of people working on the 2022 World Cup, and isn't really alarming.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_mortality...
* The death numbers are as reported by Qatar's own statistics agency and Amnesty says there are significant problems with them.
* Migrant workers are working age, not elderly, so comparing this to overall death rates is probably misleading.
* "69% of deaths of workers from India, Nepal and Bangladesh between 2008 and 2019 were attributed to ‘natural causes’ or ‘cardiac arrest’, and contained no information about the underlying causes of death... experts consulted by Amnesty International have said that in a well-resourced health system, it should be possible to identify the cause of death in all but 1% of cases."
> The point officials are making is that there are about half a million Indian workers in Qatar, and about 250 deaths per year - and this, in their view, is not a cause for concern. In fact, Indian government data suggests that back home in India you would expect a far higher proportion to die each year - not 250, but 1,000 in any group of 500,000 25-30-year-old men.
What a poorly thought comment…
Conditions for migrant workers in Qatar are certainly not pretty, but we need to be careful to stick to the facts, if we don't want to bullshit ourselves.
Source: https://www.constructconnect.com/blog/construction-worker-de...
Google also tells me by searching << united states Construction Workers 2020 >>: << Number of Jobs, 2020: 1,514,200 >>
That sounds rougly equivalent in total construction workers, but US is about 25% lower in rate of death.
What is more disturbing to me is the treatment of low-skill migrant workers in Qatar. It is terrifying, and it strikes me as the very definition of a modern slavery economy.