What Your Qatar ID Number Means: All About Your QID (2024)

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Governments all over the world use national identity numbers to track their citizens, permanent residents, and temporary residents for purposes of work, taxation, government benefits, and health care.

Similarly, every Qatar resident, irrespective of being a citizen or an expatriate, is assigned a unique Qatar ID number by the Qatar government.

This article will discuss everything you need to know about your Qatar ID number including some interesting facts.

What Is Qatar ID Number?

Qatar ID number or QID number is an 11-digit identification number issued by the State of Qatar to its citizens and residents for the purpose of residency, employment, health care, and other governmentally-related functions.

The QID number will be shown on all government documents like Driving License, Car Registration (Istimara), Health Card etc. A resident’s QID number is used to authenticate and establish his/her identity using electronic means or through offline verification.

How To Get Qatar ID Number

The Qatar ID number will be assigned to a person on the following occasions:

For those born in the country	At the time of birth (first QID)
For those born outside the country	At the time of issuing the first Residence Permit card (QID)

Expatriate residents will keep their Qatar ID number if they cancel their existing visa and return on another visa.

As a resident’s Qatar Driving License is linked to his QID number, he can continue to use his old license when he comes back to Qatar. If he has stayed out of the country for long and the license has expired, he can simply renew the driving license by paying QR 250.

How To Know Qatar ID Number

A new resident can know his Qatar ID number when his QID card is issued. The QID number would be given on the front side of his QID card.

Qatar ID Number Meaning And Format

Did you know that your Qatar ID number is not randomly generated but includes important information such as your birth year and nationality? A QID number is split into 4 parts and here is what each part means:

Part 1: The first digit shows the century of your birth. Residents born between 1900 and 1999 will have the first digit as 2; Residents born after 2000 will have the first digit as 3.

Part 2: The following two digits are your year of birth (YOB). For someone born in 1985, these two digits would be 85.

Part 3: The next three digits show your nationality by ISO 3166 County Code. Each country has a different ISO code. For instance, it is 250 for France.

Part 4: The last five digits show the sequence number for a combination of YOB and ISO Country Code. This will be unique for each person and is generated in the order of your residency.

In the above example, a person having his QID number as 28425001234 means he was born in 1985, is a French citizen (ISO code 250) and is the 1234th Qatar resident of the same nationality and year of birth.

Qatar ID Number Country Codes

Since we are discussing the country codes on your Qatar ID number, let’s try to find out the ISO code of your country and match it with your QID number:

Country Name	Code
Afghanistan	004
Albania	008
Algeria	012
American Samoa	016
Andorra	020
Angola	024
Anguila	660
Antigua and Barbuda	028
Argentina	032
Armenia	051
Aruba	533
Australia	036
Austria	040
Azerbaijan	031
Bahamas, The	044
Bahrain	048
Bangladesh	050
Barbados	052
Belarus	112
Belgium	056
Belgium-Luxembourg	058
Belize	084
Benin	204
Bermuda	060
Bhutan	064
Bolivia	068
Bosnia and Herzegovina	070
Botswana	072
Br. Antr. Terr	080
Brazil	076
British Indian Ocean Ter.	086
British Virgin Islands	092
Brunei	096
Bulgaria	100
Burkina Faso	854
Burundi	108
Cambodia	116
Cameroon	120
Canada	124
Cape Verde	132
Cayman Islands	136
Central African Republic	140
Chad	148
Chile	152
China	156
Christmas Island	162
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	166
Colombia	170
Comoros	174
Congo, Dem. Rep.	180
Congo, Rep.	178
Cook Islands	184
Costa Rica	188
Cote d’Ivoire	384
Croatia	191
Cuba	192
Cyprus	196
Czech Republic	203
Czechoslovakia	200
Denmark	208
Djibouti	262
Dominica	212
Dominican Republic	214
East Timor	626
Ecuador	218
Egypt, Arab Rep.	818
El Salvador	222
Equatorial Guinea	226
Eritrea	232
Estonia	233
Ethiopia (excludes Eritrea)	231
Ethiopia (includes Eritrea)	230
European Union	918
Faeroe Islands	234
Falkland Island	238
Fiji	242
Finland	246
Fm Panama Cz	592
Fm Rhod Nyas	717
Fm Tanganyik	835
Fm Vietnam Dr	868
Fm Vietnam Rp	866
Fm Zanz-Pemb	836
Fr. So. Ant. Tr	260
France	250
Free Zones	838
French Guiana	254
French Polynesia	258
Gabon	266
Gambia, The	270
Gaza Strip	274
Georgia	268
German Democratic Republic	278
Germany	276
Ghana	288
Gibraltar	292
Greece	300
Greenland	304
Grenada	308
Guadeloupe	312
Guam	316
Guatemala	320
Guinea	324
Guinea-Bissau	624
Guyana	328
Haiti	332
Holy See	336
Honduras	340
Hong Kong, China	344
Hungary	348
Iceland	352
India	356
Indonesia	360
Iran, Islamic Rep.	364
Iraq	368
Ireland	372
Israel	376
Italy	380
Jamaica	388
Japan	392
Jhonston Island	396
Jordan	400
Kazakhstan	398
Kenya	404
Kiribati	296
Korea, Dem. Rep.	408
Korea, Rep.	410
Kuwait	414
Kyrgyz Republic	417
Lao PDR	418
Latvia	428
Lebanon	422
Lesotho	426
Liberia	430
Libya	434
Liechtenstein	438
Lithuania	440
Luxembourg	442
Macao	446
Macedonia, FYR	807
Madagascar	450
Malawi	454
Malaysia	458
Maldives	462
Mali	466
Malta	470
Marshall Islands	584
Martinique	474
Mauritania	478
Mauritius	480
Mexico	484
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.	583
Midway Islands	488
Moldova	498
Monaco	492
Mongolia	496
Montserrat	500
Morocco	504
Mozambique	508
Myanmar	104
Namibia	516
Nauru	520
Nepal	524
Netherlands	528
Netherlands Antilles	530
Neutral Zone	536
New Caledonia	540
New Zealand	554
Nicaragua	558
Niger	562
Nigeria	566
Niue	570
Norfolk Island	574
Northern Mariana Islands	580
Norway	578
Oman	512
Pacific Islands	582
Pakistan	586
Palau	585
Panama	591
Papua New Guinea	598
Paraguay	600
Pen Malaysia	459
Peru	604
Philippines	608
Pitcairn	612
Poland	616
Portugal	620
Puerto Rico	630
Qatar	634
Reunion	638
Romania	642
Russian Federation	643
Rwanda	646
Ryukyu Is	647
Sabah	461
Saint Helena	654
Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla-Aru	658
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	666
Samoa	882
San Marino	674
Sao Tome and Principe	678
Sarawak	457
Saudi Arabia	682
Senegal	686
Seychelles	690
Sierra Leone	694
Singapore	702
Slovak Republic	703
Slovenia	705
Solomon Islands	090
Somalia	706
South Africa	710
Soviet Union	810
Spain	724
Special Categories	839
Sri Lanka	144
St. Kitts and Nevis	659
St. Lucia	662
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	670
Sudan	736
Suriname	740
Svalbard and Jan Mayen Is	744
Swaziland	748
Sweden	752
Switzerland	756
Syrian Arab Republic	760
Taiwan	158
Tajikistan	762
Tanzania	834
Thailand	764
Togo	768
Tokelau	772
Tonga	776
Trinidad and Tobago	780
Tunisia	788
Turkey	792
Turkmenistan	795
Turks and Caicos Isl.	796
Tuvalu	798
Uganda	800
Ukraine	804
United Arab Emirates	784
United Kingdom	826
United States	840
Unspecified	898
Uruguay	858
Us Msc.Pac.I	849
Uzbekistan	860
Vanuatu	548
Venezuela	862
Vietnam	704
Virgin Islands (U.S.)	850
Wake Island	872
Wallis and Futura Isl.	876
Western Sahara	732
World	000
Yemen Democratic	720
Yemen, Rep.	887
Yugoslavia	891
Yugoslavia, FR (Serbia/Montene	890
Zambia	894
Zimbabwe	716

Now that you know how to decode a QID number and even find someone’s age, share this with your friends and family.

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Country Codes Reference: World Bank

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