The number doesn't seem egregious relative to how many workers there are. The Josimar article says
> 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...
> 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...