Qatar Spending Significantly on World Cup 2022

Qatar’s Finance Minister has revealed that the country is spending around $500m per week on preparations for the 2022 World Cup which will be held in the Middle-Eastern country.

Ali Shareef Al-Emadi said the figure covers all infrastructure projects ahead of football’s primary international competition. The building of stadia is a major cost for the competition, with other expenses including a new airport, roads and hospitals.

Initial estimates suggest the emirate will spend more than $200bn before hosting the World Cup, around 18 times the amount spent by Brazil to deliver 2014.

Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers, largely from South Asian nations, have been brought to the country to enable preparations, with the Qatari government passing legislation in December to improve their working conditions.