--- title: How Many Migrants Died Erecting the 2022 Qatar World Cup? description: Rights groups estimate thousands have died but that the lack of a precise toll underscores the need for truth and justice. canonical: https://time.com/6237677/qatar-migrant-deaths-world-cup/ author: Armani Syed article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2022-12-02T10:38:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-19T06:59:11.621Z article:section: World og:title: How Many Migrants Died Erecting the Qatar World Cup? og:description: Rights groups say that the lack of a precise toll underscores the need for truth and justice. og:url: https://time.com/6237677/qatar-migrant-deaths-world-cup/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3164867c7cc7c3e5/698a3869e6e84adb872afa28/qatar-migrant-workers.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Qatar - Daily Life of Migrant Workers og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Many Migrants Died Erecting the Qatar World Cup? twitter:description: Rights groups say that the lack of a precise toll underscores the need for truth and justice. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3164867c7cc7c3e5/698a3869e6e84adb872afa28/qatar-migrant-workers.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Why We May Never Know How Many Migrants Died Erecting the Qatar World Cup > Sponsored content. 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Time reporters traveled the route that nearly half a million Nepali migrant laborers have taken over the past decade to middle east countries like Qatar, where they have helped build the stadiums, hotels, transport systems and entertainment venues that will host fans and players for the upcoming men’s World Cup soccer championship that starts November 20._  by [Armani Syed](https://time.com/author/armani-syed/)  ## Armani Syed Syed was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Dec 2, 2022 10:38 AM UTC Time reporters traveled the route that nearly half a million Nepali migrant laborers have taken over the past decade to middle east countries like Qatar, where they have helped build the stadiums, hotels, transport systems and entertainment venues that will host fans and players for the upcoming men’s World Cup soccer championship that starts November 20.  by [Armani Syed](https://time.com/author/armani-syed/)  ## Armani Syed Syed was a reporter for TIME, based in the London bureau. Dec 2, 2022 10:38 AM UTC Listen 00:001.0x05:59 Narrated by TIME AI. The death of[ migrant workers](https://time.com/6227277/qatar-extreme-heat-world-cup-2022/) erecting infrastructure for[ Qatar’s World Cup](https://time.com/6236641/fans-response-qatar-world-cup-2022/) over the past decade once again made headlines earlier this week. In[ an interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPaGtOLkUt8), Hassan al-Thawadi, secretary general of Qatar’s World Cup organizing committee, told British TV presenter Piers Morgan that “around 400, between 400 and 500” migrants died. “I don’t have the exact number. That’s something that’s been discussed,” he said. The estimate is drastically higher than any other previously offered by Qatari officials. Yet the World Cup committee that al-Thawadi steers swiftly[ walked that comment back](https://twitter.com/tariqpanja/status/1597556284475453440?s=20&t=%5FQyC2gOccpnEOrz4KEIuRw), echoing prior Qatari statements that 37 non-work related migrant deaths and three work-related ones took place from 2014 to 2020.[ Rights groups](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/11/qatar-ongoing-debate-over-migrant-worker-deaths-exposes-need-for-truth-and-compensation/) have criticized both estimates, viewing them as vast undercounts of the human tragedy of the tournament. “Companies are going out of their way to make sure that independent labor inspectors do not find these workers, so they try to hide the treatment of \[them\],” says Mustafa Qadri, founder and executive director of Equidem, a labor rights consultancy reporting on the ground in Qatar. “So if that’s how workers are treated in terms of forced labor, it raises questions around the death \[toll\] as well.” ## Did 6,500 migrant workers die erecting the World Cup? In 2021,[ _The Guardian_](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022) reported that at least 6,500 migrant workers died in Qatar since it won the right to host the World Cup a decade ago. However, in an Oct. 15 Twitter[ thread](https://twitter.com/marcowenjones/status/1581212669637369858?lang=en), Marc Owen Jones, an associate professor at Hamid Bin Khalifa University in Doha, called the headline of the piece misleading and said it was the “MOST RETWEETED article about the Qatar world cup in English,” sharing an analysis of tweets in [one post](https://twitter.com/marcowenjones/status/1581212700377780225?s=20&t=ipEeIM9SVft7L3tCkE834Q). “The 6,500 figure actually refers to all deaths of migrant workers from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, India, and Bangladesh, regardless of cause,” he said. Max Tuñón, head of the U.N.’s International Labour Organization (ILO) office in Doha, which carried out a[ 2021 analysis](https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---arabstates/---ro-beirut/---ilo-qatar/documents/publication/wcms%5F828395.pdf) of data on occupational deaths and injuries in Qatar, says determining the number of deaths is complicated for a number of reasons. Tuñón cites ministries that use different data collection methods, the complexity of when to attribute a death directly to work, and deciding what constitutes a World Cup project. As sports journalist David Goldblatt[ wrote](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n22/david-goldblatt/how-to-get-on-tv) in a Nov. 17 essay for the _London Review of Books_ about the 6,500 figure, “First, not all migrant deaths are migrant worker deaths; the overall figure includes retired people, spouses and other dependents. Second, not all migrant worker deaths result from work. Third, not all migrant worker deaths result from World Cup projects; no more than 20 per cent of the migrant workforce are employed in construction.” Still, Goldblatt said that the 37 figure cited by Qatari officials is “disingenuous” and “based on a definition of ‘World Cup projects’ that includes only a handful of prominent initiatives, all of which observe the highest health and safety standards.” Human rights groups put the death toll in the thousands. “There is clear evidence of thousands of migrant worker deaths in the lead-up to the World Cup,” [said Human Rights Watch’s](https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/11/30/qatar-world-cup-chief-publicly-admits-high-migrant-death-tolls) Michael Page and Minky Worden in an article following al-Thawadi’s comments. “Over the last decade, thousands of workers have returned home in coffins, with no explanation given to their loved ones,” said Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International’s head of economic and social Justice, [in an article](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/11/qatar-ongoing-debate-over-migrant-worker-deaths-exposes-need-for-truth-and-compensation/) on Tuesday. “The continued debate around the number of workers who have died in the preparation of the World Cup exposes the stark reality that so many bereaved families are still waiting for truth and justice,” he added. ## What conditions do migrant workers face in Qatar? According to a[ 2016 report](https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde22/3741/2016/en/) by Amnesty International, a metalworker who worked on Khalifa International Stadium, one of eight FIFA 2022 World Cup venues, said in 2015 that migrant life in Qatar is “like a prison.” The metalworker said he works long hours in extreme heat and was told that there would be “consequences” if he ever complained. “Now I am forced to stay in Qatar and continue working,” he said. Qatar is home to 2.9 million people but only 300,000 of them are citizens. The rest are mainly white collar workers largely from the Global North or migrants mostly from Asia and Africa, working in everything from domestic work to the service industry to construction. Qatar previously used the[ _kafala_ system](https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-kafala-system), where workers must have a sponsor who retains power over whether they can change jobs or even leave the country. Rights groups have spent years documenting how _kafala_ underpinned the exploitative system for migrant workers, from “passport confiscation to delayed wages and forced labor,”[ according to](https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/09/24/qatar-significant-labor-and-kafala-reforms) Human Rights Watch. A new[ labor law in 2020](https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/sep/01/new-employment-law-effectively-ends-qatars-exploitative-kafala-system) ended the exploitative _kafala_ system. But Tuñón told Vox last week that, “We don’t say the _kafala_ system has been abolished, but we say the most problematic elements of kafala have been dismantled.” **Read More:**[ _Thousands of Migrant Workers Died in Qatar’s Extreme Heat. The World Cup Forced a Reckoning_](https://time.com/6227277/qatar-extreme-heat-world-cup-2022/) Qadri of Equidem says he has worked with the government and ILO on legal reforms that established a workers’ wage fund, which pays a laborer their income when an employer fails to. He says these measures are “significant” but there is a “lack of adequate and consistent enforcement.” But Qadri says that Qatar must address a deeper structural inequality for more robust and lasting reforms. “What we need is leadership from Qatar, not excuses and gaslighting for very real, concrete human rights failings that are hurting and killing people,” he says. ## Transcript [00:01] The winner to organize the 22. [00:04] FIFA World Cup Qatar. [00:10] The hosting an event of this size requires a lot of separate [00:13] new stadiums, state-of-the-art training facilities and a lot [00:17] more kind of exceed 50 degrees with humidity. [00:29] The 2022 World Cup kicks off in November 5 months later than [00:34] usual. Spare players and fans the worst of the gulf scorching [00:38] summer heat. [00:53] Qatar has been 10 years and two hundred billion dollars preparing [00:57] for these games a building boom. [00:59] And one of the world's hottest places [01:03] and it relied on a global supply chain of Migrant workers [01:06] from the Philippines Bangladesh, India and Nepal. [01:12] Desperate enough to work in any conditions. [02:34] Here or Surrender, no. [02:36] More [02:43] Chaplet of Divine Mercy. [02:51] honey, because some of us, [02:56] I want someone by Cher. [02:59] McDonald's. [03:05] I know I need a happy like when I got it. [03:09] Hey buddy, love you. [03:11] Why do people yawn? [03:22] Montauk. What time, Alabama? [03:28] Comerica Theatre. [03:34] Play Yoshi like Morgan. [03:43] This one's underground, five levels. [03:50] What does it feel like to see these photos? [03:53] I would like to say, happy happy happy. [04:03] Like all workers headed for the gulf surrender tamang, [04:06] passed a health screening before he left Nepal. [04:09] He was hired as a construction worker on a luxury complex [04:12] in downtown Doha. [04:13] It was one of many such projects that sprang up in the rush [04:17] to prepare for the 2022 games in the equivalent to $400 [04:22] a month and spent nearly all of it home. [04:30] But I can see why you're proud. [04:31] It's an amazing structure. [04:41] Add me to take my boo by chambliss South possible. [04:45] Negative. [05:25] AutoZone. [05:44] When was pilate the boys? [05:45] Have we had the tiniest. [05:49] Pakistani video Gana. [05:51] 1911 Livonia. Ave [06:03] And Qatar Sorento suffered headaches and dizzy spells, [06:06] clear signs of heat stress. [06:09] When his job site posters emphasized, the need to stay hydrated [06:14] but he had to pay for his own water. [06:16] And some days when he was working high up on scaffolding, [06:19] he would avoid drinking so we would have to make trips up and [06:22] down to the bathroom. [06:26] When he got too sick to work, [06:27] his employer sent him home. [06:30] By the time he arrived in Kathmandu, [06:31] both his kidneys have stopped functioning the result of heat [06:35] exposure and chronic dehydration. [06:36] According to his doctor, [06:41] Now, 31, he will likely be on dialysis for the rest of his life. [06:50] The cheap aerial system. [06:52] Holy year are also before they endured to the services and still [07:01] we find lots of patients returning with kidney failure to our [07:09] country. [07:11] Presently around. 600% [07:15] are on dialysis at Kidney Center in different branches of Nepal. [07:23] 10% [07:24] of the patients who are on dialysis Adult Center, [07:27] call return [07:35] The climate is getting hotter and this feeling of kidney failure, [07:41] becoming more intense is ready to take care of the building. [07:48] That is his patience. [07:50] Are golf will remain the same attitude, [07:53] no responsibility. [07:57] Aren't they were intense? [07:59] Something has to be done. [08:03] Public Health. Experts, warn that chronic kidney disease [08:06] could become a major health epidemic for outdoor workers [08:10] as a planet continues to warm and migrant workers are especially [08:13] vulnerable. Heat is killing workers, but officials in Qatar, [08:18] rarely acknowledged its role death, certificates record an unusually [08:22] high rate of what is simply called. [08:23] Cardiac Arrest among those young. [08:26] Seemingly healthy men have left home in search of work. [08:30] So we saw a statistic from 2012 to 2020. [08:34] There is 571, Nepali workers who died in Qatar, [08:38] writing caracara, Stoneleigh will not Define. [08:46] Any other languages are what may be the cause of death, [08:48] the death of death of a particular person. [08:54] There should be some antecedent and the contributors [08:57] that was not mentioned in the middle of the death certificate. [09:00] Our body. Can I claim it dies? [09:07] If the temperature is more than 40 degrees, [09:11] Centigrade the person will have some sort of heat-related [09:16] complication. [09:25] Flights from Kathmandu to Doha have increased substantially [09:27] over the last decade, most months have about 150 flights [09:32] on this route. [10:08] In the years since to render left. [10:09] Qatar conditions have actually improved from any laborers, [10:12] we asked a construction company that he worked for about on-site [10:16] heat labor protections, but they did not reply. [10:21] So the Show the World Cup has accelerated, [10:24] the International Labour Organization, along with heat scientists [10:38] were divided to Qatar to study the impact of heat and humidity [10:41] on worker Health. [10:42] The result was legislation that increase the window of summer [10:45] days and which work hours are restricted. [10:47] It also expanded the midday summer work fan by 2 hours. [10:54] Another Innovation is the use of a relatively new measurement [10:58] that combined standard temperature and humidity to determine [11:01] what is called a wet bulb Globe. [11:03] Temperature Index, this measurement is essential to protecting [11:06] outdoor workers because humidity impact the body's ability [11:09] to sweat and the school down. [11:15] when on the wet-bulb temperature index these conditions [11:18] which is 32.1 and the third key measure from this legislation [11:24] is that all out of workers, must undertake an annual health [11:28] screening [11:31] Qatar has eight stadiums ready for the soccer matches spread [11:34] out across Doha. [11:35] We toured Lucedale, the largest of them, [11:38] which will host the final game of the 2022 World Cup. [11:43] Although much criticism has been aimed at Qatar because of World [11:47] Cup construction. The workers building the football stadiums. [11:50] I've actually had some of the safest construction jobs in the [11:53] last decade here and the new regulations have them prove them [11:56] even more [11:57] You can see. [11:59] Today, this is a complete the stadium with air conditioning [12:01] and it's fine when you're building. It [12:03] is not, it feels almost as hot inside. [12:05] This is outside every year. [12:07] There are Lessons Learned every year, the science behind it, [12:09] progresses and the authorities. [12:12] Responsible for defining, those timings begin to understand [12:15] the effect of heat on the workforce and on anybody being outdoors, [12:18] enough time and adjust accordingly rights organization. [12:24] Stay the thousands of Migrant workers have died since. [12:26] Qatar was awarded the rights to host the World Cup. [12:29] However, very few are tied to the stadiums in part. [12:34] This is because the construction has been managed by the government, [12:37] which is in, for stringent worker protection regulations, [12:40] including for the private subcontractors working here. [12:45] Contractors try to play dumb every Samoan. [12:48] So their arms up every summer and say, [12:50] oh, it's summer working hours again and we have to explain [12:54] that. Yes, it is and you're a professional licenses. [12:57] If I contract in the state of Qatar and those of the ministry of [13:00] Labour, Ministry of Labour reported nearly 400, [13:05] violations of the new heat protection policy for outdoor [13:08] workers, reports from local Clinic show that emissions [13:11] for heat stress have actually dropped by more than half from [13:14] last summer. Indicating that the new rules may be working. [13:17] How far is the most advanced in terms of legislation [13:21] when it comes to keep heat regulations much easier to slow things [13:29] down or even something completely? [13:31] When we see things getting out of hand. [13:33] It's much easier to do that now. [13:34] And vile things in before, people are pushed beyond the system [13:38] is. It's a very tough battle against private contractors [13:41] there against the clock. [13:42] They've been paid money to finish, they have liabilities [13:46] on professional Indemnity. [13:47] I need to finish the work and sometimes they do it. [13:49] Regardless of course we needed government permits to visit [13:56] all construction sites including this privately-run [13:59] work site near the sale. [14:01] Officials from the ministry of Labour. [14:03] We're there and workers spoked with only in the presence [14:06] of their supervisors. [14:07] So how have you been told? [14:10] The Kinks as workers here and Doha. [14:23] What would you tell if you had a cousin coming from the Paul [14:29] to work in Doha, what would you tell him to prepare for the Heat? [14:33] Marinara by, I went to school with baking soda, [14:37] take a lot of money. [14:49] Is it easy to follow these rules? [14:50] Your advice? Is it easy? [15:00] The games will go on, but they leave behind questions about [15:05] just how much the world's migrant labor force should be asked [15:08] to sacrifice as wealthy Nations pursue Perpetual growth in a warming [15:13] world. [15:17] the World Cup is not the Finishing Line This between everybody [15:22] recognizes that this is a longer-term and ever and it will take [15:26] time to build [15:35] The Government of Nepal is conflicted when it comes to demanding [15:41] better conditions from the wealthy Nations, that helped deliver [15:44] nearly a third of Nepal's GDP each year. [15:47] Ramen Shop, Kota is a Nepali journalist who has been investigating [15:52] labor conditions for Nepal's overseas, migrant workers. [15:59] So, I mainly writing about the migrations and the displacement, [16:04] you know, you make people away and 2, [16:10] mg in teaspoons to go by writing this issue. [16:16] yo, someone we spoke with the group of men who are where the [16:25] difficult working conditions in the Gulf, but most still plan [16:28] to go, [16:35] Malaysia. [16:39] How do you spell 7 + 51? [17:06] 108. [17:23] back in Kathmandu Surendra, who once dreamed of watching [17:26] the world cup from a stadium in Qatar is instead just trying [17:30] to stay healthy China Wok, [17:38] Let me guess someone else. [17:52] I will keep and anyone see a human Ma? [18:00] But I'm kidney disease. [18:02] How much they can't? [18:02] You guys are going to Downey Park Produce hours in Longview. [18:27] Lottery online. [18:31] I had a big sign. [18:36] Are you dumb? [18:38] The mother garbage anniversary. 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