Some 122 people from Qatar have applied for a one-way trip to Mars in 2023, according to a report.
The Qatar applicants are among the 202,586 people from around the world, wanting to be among the first human settlers on Mars, according to Mars One webiste.
Mars One is a not-for-profit foundation that will establish a permanent human settlement on Mars in 2023.
Mars is a barren, lifeless planet about 400mn km from Earth, with average temperatures of minus 60°C.
In all, there are more than 1,000 people from the Middle East who have signed up for a chance to spend the rest of their lives on Mars.
Among them are applicants from Saudi Arabia (477), Bahrain (421), Kuwait (142), the United Arab Emirates (52) and Oman (45).
Other Mars One applicants come from over 140 countries; the largest numbers are from the  US (24%), India (10%), China (6%), Brazil (5%), the UK, Canada, Russia and Mexico (4% each), the Philippines, Spain, Colombia and Argentina (2%), Australia, France, Turkey, Chile, Ukraine, Peru, Germany, Italy and Poland (1%).
From the applicant pool, the Mars One selection committee will select prospective Martian settlers in three additional rounds spread across two years.
The process is expected to take several months and candidates selected to pass to the next round will be notified by the end of this year.
The second round of selection will start in 2014, where the candidates will be interviewed in person by a Mars One selection committee.
Aspiring Martians who have missed round one or could not meet the age restriction can join subsequent Astronaut Selection Programmes.
Mars One will commence regular recruitment programmes as the search for follow-up crews continues.
By 2015, six to ten teams of four individuals will be selected for seven years of full-time training.
In 2023, one of the teams will become the first humans ever to land on Mars and live there for the rest of their lives.