Country or area · Western Asia · Asia · UN WPP 2024

Qatar population

Qatar population now

3,186,396

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 2.6–3.8 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 2,979,082

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 3.17355 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 2.6–3.8 million
Median age: 34.4
Aged 65+: 1.7%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 2,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

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QAT · 1950–2100 · in brief

Qatar in numbers

Qatar had 2,979,082 people in mid-2023, the 138th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.04% of the world's people. That is 122.7 times its 1950 population of 24,283.

In the UN's medium projection it is still growing in 2100, when it reaches 7.3 million. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 401 thousand to 22.1 million.

Births outnumber deaths in every year from 1950 to 2100, estimates and projection alike.

The median age was 18.6 in 1950 and 34.2 in 2023; the projection has 34.7 in 2100. 1.6% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 10.1% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is still growing in 2100 in the medium projection.

Among countries it ranks 138th in 2023, 134th in 2050 and 114th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Moldova in 2024, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2026 and Puerto Rico in 2027. It is overtaken by Namibia in 2028, the Gambia in 2039 and Gabon in 2057.

Population, mid-2023: 2,979,082
Rank by population, 2023: 138 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.04%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: +2.99% · +86,627 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 259
Land area, 2023: 11,490 km²
Births, 2023: 29,516
Deaths, 2023: 2,771
Net migration, 2023: +39,995
Children per woman, 2023: 1.73
Median age, 2023: 34.2 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 82.4 years
In a city, 2025: 81 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 24,283
Projected, mid-2050: 4,164,460
Projected, mid-2100: 7,272,256

QAT · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: Qatar, 1950–2100

Qatar: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	23,900		1,170	399	6.54	50.8
1951	estimate	24,666		1,200	401	6.54	51.5
1952	estimate	25,467		1,232	402	6.55	52.1
1953	estimate	26,307		1,263	402	6.54	52.8
1954	estimate	27,169		1,298	403	6.55	53.5
1955	estimate	28,064		1,332	402	6.54	54.2
1956	estimate	29,008		1,370	401	6.54	54.9
1957	estimate	30,040		1,412	401	6.53	55.6
1958	estimate	31,235		1,464	401	6.53	56.3
1959	estimate	32,702		1,533	404	6.53	57.0
1960	estimate	34,609		1,630	411	6.53	57.8
1961	estimate	37,411		1,783	426	6.53	58.5
1962	estimate	41,949		2,048	458	6.53	59.2
1963	estimate	47,312		2,351	496	6.53	60.0
1964	estimate	53,449		2,687	537	6.53	60.7
1965	estimate	60,286		3,051	580	6.53	61.4
1966	estimate	67,844		3,434	622	6.52	62.2
1967	estimate	76,540		3,833	667	6.46	62.9
1968	estimate	86,339		4,260	713	6.39	63.6
1969	estimate	97,159		4,701	759	6.31	64.3
1970	estimate	108,892		5,152	806	6.23	64.9
1971	estimate	123,807		5,252	819	6.14	65.5
1972	estimate	138,885		5,410	829	6.07	66.1
1973	estimate	154,128		5,620	840	6.01	66.6
1974	estimate	169,555		5,868	853	5.93	67.2
1975	estimate	185,169		6,156	866	5.86	67.7
1976	estimate	201,005		6,478	881	5.78	68.2
1977	estimate	217,098		6,820	896	5.69	68.6
1978	estimate	233,472		7,155	910	5.58	69.1
1979	estimate	250,143		7,503	923	5.46	69.5
1980	estimate	267,197		7,830	935	5.33	69.9
1981	estimate	284,630		8,146	945	5.20	70.3
1982	estimate	302,475		8,440	951	5.04	70.7
1983	estimate	320,599		8,720	954	4.90	71.1
1984	estimate	338,819		8,950	953	4.76	71.5
1985	estimate	356,937		9,162	950	4.64	71.8
1986	estimate	374,944		9,385	946	4.57	72.2
1987	estimate	389,900		9,757	951	4.54	72.5
1988	estimate	404,111		10,156	958	4.51	72.8
1989	estimate	418,418		10,369	963	4.41	73.1
1990	estimate	432,874		10,355	967	4.23	73.4
1991	estimate	447,477		10,155	972	3.99	73.7
1992	estimate	462,228		10,173	983	3.85	73.9
1993	estimate	477,086		10,248	998	3.77	74.1
1994	estimate	492,003		10,271	1,015	3.67	74.2
1995	estimate	506,916		10,219	1,032	3.56	74.4
1996	estimate	521,734		10,098	1,049	3.44	74.6
1997	estimate	536,303		9,910	1,063	3.33	74.7
1998	estimate	564,698		10,159	1,103	3.21	74.9
1999	estimate	596,382		10,581	1,150	3.12	75.0
2000	estimate	628,619		11,170	1,196	3.07	75.3
2001	estimate	661,359		11,925	1,241	3.08	75.5
2002	estimate	694,491		12,341	1,279	3.01	75.8
2003	estimate	727,919		12,601	1,309	2.92	76.1
2004	estimate	761,445		12,573	1,332	2.79	76.5
2005	estimate	785,220		12,741	1,348	2.63	76.9
2006	estimate	865,595		11,647	1,422	2.51	77.3
2007	estimate	1,080,067		13,032	1,681	2.44	77.7
2008	estimate	1,337,123		16,019	1,957	2.37	78.3
2009	estimate	1,516,754		17,414	2,041	2.25	78.8
2010	estimate	1,655,345		19,183	2,031	2.14	79.4
2011	estimate	1,763,114		20,518	2,079	2.07	80.0
2012	estimate	1,858,786		21,736	2,159	2.04	80.5
2013	estimate	1,955,448		23,105	2,244	2.03	81.0
2014	estimate	2,109,834		24,693	2,323	2.03	81.4
2015	estimate	2,326,910		25,720	2,354	1.98	81.8
2016	estimate	2,527,751		25,913	2,392	1.86	82.2
2017	estimate	2,670,993		27,151	2,439	1.83	82.5
2018	estimate	2,742,426		27,393	2,421	1.76	82.7
2019	estimate	2,779,858		27,920	2,354	1.73	83.0
2020	estimate	2,815,984		28,163	2,952	1.68	80.4
2021	estimate	2,790,766		26,896	2,965	1.60	81.1
2022	estimate	2,839,198		29,212	2,695	1.74	81.9
2023	estimate	2,945,712		29,516	2,771	1.73	82.4
2024	estimate	3,012,452		29,034	3,203	1.72	82.5
2025	projection	3,084,394	2.9–3.2 million	29,934	3,232	1.70	82.7
2026	projection	3,147,383	2.8–3.5 million	30,830	3,270	1.69	82.8
2027	projection	3,199,736	2.6–3.8 million	31,705	3,277	1.68	83.0
2028	projection	3,242,094	2.6–4.1 million	32,505	3,287	1.67	83.1
2029	projection	3,281,172	2.5–4.3 million	33,331	3,289	1.66	83.3
2030	projection	3,316,996	2.4–4.6 million	34,134	3,295	1.66	83.4
2031	projection	3,350,225	2.4–4.8 million	34,969	3,293	1.65	83.6
2032	projection	3,384,365	2.4–5.1 million	35,849	3,294	1.65	83.7
2033	projection	3,419,412	2.4–5.4 million	36,803	3,297	1.64	83.9
2034	projection	3,455,436	2.4–5.7 million	37,753	3,308	1.64	84.0
2035	projection	3,492,365	2.4–6.0 million	38,606	3,319	1.64	84.2
2036	projection	3,530,152	2.5–6.2 million	39,547	3,332	1.63	84.3
2037	projection	3,568,889	2.5–6.5 million	40,445	3,347	1.63	84.4
2038	projection	3,608,538	2.5–6.8 million	41,327	3,366	1.63	84.6
2039	projection	3,649,066	2.5–7.0 million	42,188	3,392	1.63	84.7
2040	projection	3,690,422	2.5–7.3 million	42,985	3,418	1.63	84.8
2041	projection	3,732,584	2.5–7.6 million	43,711	3,450	1.63	85.0
2042	projection	3,775,469	2.5–7.9 million	44,428	3,489	1.63	85.1
2043	projection	3,819,065	2.5–8.2 million	45,112	3,534	1.63	85.2
2044	projection	3,863,313	2.6–8.5 million	45,735	3,584	1.63	85.3
2045	projection	3,908,182	2.5–8.7 million	46,349	3,641	1.63	85.4
2046	projection	3,953,611	2.6–9.0 million	46,929	3,703	1.63	85.5
2047	projection	3,999,582	2.5–9.2 million	47,516	3,772	1.63	85.7
2048	projection	4,046,066	2.5–9.5 million	48,045	3,844	1.63	85.8
2049	projection	4,093,062	2.5–9.8 million	48,604	3,930	1.63	85.8
2050	projection	4,140,482	2.5–9.9 million	49,154	4,016	1.62	85.9
2051	projection	4,188,439	2.4–10.2 million	49,739	4,108	1.62	86.0
2052	projection	4,236,873	2.4–10.4 million	50,370	4,208	1.62	86.1
2053	projection	4,285,865	2.4–10.7 million	51,047	4,316	1.62	86.2
2054	projection	4,335,627	2.3–11.0 million	51,713	4,441	1.62	86.3
2055	projection	4,385,758	2.3–11.2 million	52,443	4,569	1.62	86.4
2056	projection	4,436,719	2.2–11.5 million	53,137	4,711	1.61	86.5
2057	projection	4,487,899	2.2–11.7 million	53,880	4,853	1.61	86.6
2058	projection	4,539,876	2.2–12.1 million	54,616	5,016	1.61	86.7
2059	projection	4,592,330	2.1–12.4 million	55,464	5,181	1.61	86.8
2060	projection	4,645,414	2.1–12.7 million	56,300	5,363	1.61	86.9
2061	projection	4,699,117	2.0–12.9 million	57,105	5,554	1.61	87.0
2062	projection	4,753,438	2.0–13.3 million	57,909	5,758	1.61	87.1
2063	projection	4,808,441	1.9–13.4 million	58,826	5,968	1.61	87.2
2064	projection	4,864,662	1.8–13.5 million	59,690	6,191	1.61	87.2
2065	projection	4,921,429	1.8–13.7 million	60,503	6,425	1.61	87.3
2066	projection	4,978,610	1.8–14.1 million	61,310	6,655	1.61	87.4
2067	projection	5,036,331	1.7–14.3 million	62,172	6,893	1.61	87.5
2068	projection	5,094,598	1.7–14.6 million	62,967	7,135	1.61	87.6
2069	projection	5,153,439	1.6–15.0 million	63,773	7,369	1.61	87.7
2070	projection	5,212,851	1.6–15.2 million	64,569	7,591	1.60	87.7
2071	projection	5,272,909	1.6–15.5 million	65,336	7,811	1.60	87.8
2072	projection	5,333,465	1.6–15.7 million	66,172	8,021	1.60	87.9
2073	projection	5,394,668	1.5–15.9 million	67,069	8,221	1.61	88.0
2074	projection	5,456,430	1.5–16.3 million	67,885	8,415	1.61	88.2
2075	projection	5,518,898	1.4–16.6 million	68,651	8,614	1.61	88.3
2076	projection	5,581,815	1.4–16.9 million	69,378	8,806	1.61	88.4
2077	projection	5,645,200	1.3–17.1 million	70,119	8,985	1.60	88.5
2078	projection	5,709,144	1.3–17.3 million	71,018	9,156	1.61	88.6
2079	projection	5,773,674	1.2–17.5 million	71,819	9,337	1.61	88.7
2080	projection	5,838,652	1.1–17.5 million	72,719	9,512	1.61	88.8
2081	projection	5,903,923	1.1–18.0 million	73,598	9,673	1.62	88.9
2082	projection	5,970,177	1.1–18.2 million	74,308	9,857	1.61	89.0
2083	projection	6,036,988	1.0–18.5 million	75,160	10,054	1.62	89.1
2084	projection	6,104,056	0.9–18.7 million	75,921	10,265	1.62	89.2
2085	projection	6,171,600	0.9–18.8 million	76,858	10,501	1.62	89.3
2086	projection	6,239,797	0.9–19.0 million	77,652	10,775	1.62	89.4
2087	projection	6,308,462	0.8–19.3 million	78,471	11,052	1.62	89.5
2088	projection	6,377,649	0.7–19.8 million	79,366	11,370	1.62	89.7
2089	projection	6,447,386	0.7–20.2 million	80,202	11,737	1.62	89.8
2090	projection	6,517,541	0.7–20.0 million	81,062	12,158	1.62	89.9
2091	projection	6,588,080	0.7–20.4 million	81,977	12,631	1.62	90.0
2092	projection	6,659,046	0.8–20.7 million	82,787	13,166	1.62	90.1
2093	projection	6,730,259	0.7–20.7 million	83,739	13,736	1.62	90.2
2094	projection	6,801,809	0.6–20.8 million	84,746	14,347	1.62	90.3
2095	projection	6,873,734	0.6–21.1 million	85,691	15,001	1.62	90.4
2096	projection	6,945,936	0.6–21.5 million	86,661	15,712	1.63	90.5
2097	projection	7,018,370	0.6–21.9 million	87,478	16,454	1.63	90.6
2098	projection	7,090,866	0.5–22.1 million	88,305	17,219	1.62	90.7
2099	projection	7,163,397	0.4–22.1 million	89,122	17,994	1.62	90.8
2100	projection	7,235,935	0.4–22.1 million	90,028	18,789	1.63	90.9

Show the numbers: Qatar, mid-2026, by single year of age

Qatar: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	15,878	15,400
1	16,099	15,973
2	16,470	16,597
3	16,748	16,946
4	16,664	16,618
5	16,764	16,423
6	17,112	16,668
7	17,443	16,750
8	17,612	16,507
9	17,388	15,990
10	16,920	15,386
11	16,066	14,766
12	14,781	14,141
13	13,364	13,554
14	11,955	12,916
15	10,842	12,274
16	11,234	11,840
17	13,292	11,625
18	16,292	11,516
19	19,600	11,450
20	22,983	11,509
21	25,420	11,828
22	26,876	12,273
23	28,744	12,842
24	32,713	13,826
25	39,234	15,192
26	46,680	16,265
27	53,552	17,002
28	60,088	17,838
29	66,344	18,994
30	71,243	20,380
31	74,812	21,902
32	77,264	23,340
33	77,527	24,206
34	77,086	24,426
35	78,127	24,332
36	80,518	24,232
37	81,667	24,140
38	77,233	23,390
39	70,687	21,850
40	66,130	20,170
41	61,787	18,766
42	58,505	17,722
43	55,563	16,784
44	51,085	15,762
45	47,046	14,744
46	43,158	13,562
47	39,100	12,313
48	35,776	11,168
49	33,193	10,104
50	31,262	9,075
51	28,950	8,038
52	26,434	7,196
53	24,078	6,567
54	21,668	6,118
55	19,178	5,864
56	16,659	5,492
57	14,388	4,958
58	12,380	4,467
59	10,726	4,112
60	9,520	3,824
61	8,438	3,489
62	7,678	3,154
63	6,940	2,865
64	5,877	2,637
65	5,100	2,455
66	4,559	2,203
67	3,860	1,942
68	3,176	1,760
69	2,628	1,610
70	2,186	1,510
71	1,793	1,364
72	1,448	1,166
73	1,172	1,020
74	978	917
75	869	848
76	798	720
77	738	540
78	719	476
79	718	490
80	366	270
81	272	236
82	256	248
83	360	288
84	270	241
85	204	197
86	170	161
87	142	134
88	116	113
89	96	98
90	76	84
91	60	70
92	46	57
93	34	44
94	25	34
95	18	24
96	12	17
97	8	12
98	6	8
99	3	6
100+	4	7

QAT · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Qatar, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

QAT · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Qatar

In Qatar the number of people aged 15–64 is still growing in 2100, the last year the UN projects. In 2023 there were 2,480,600 of them.

100 aged 15–64

18 children

2 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 122 years: 1979–2100.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

QAT · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Qatar, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Qatar gains 36,706 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 25,536 a year more arriving than leaving.

one square = 5,000 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was 245,703 (2007) and the most it lost was 50,433 (2020).

In 2024, 2,337,000 people living in Qatar had been born in another country, 77 of every 100 people there, against 49 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

QAT · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Qatar

Of every 100 babies born in Qatar in 2023, 1 had a mother under 20, 70 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 29 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 23 under 20 and 11 aged 35 or older.

1950
23 · 66 · 11

2023
1 · 70 · 29

2050 · projected
1 · 74 · 25

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 29,516
Average age when women have a baby: 30.4 years; 27.5 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 6; 199 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Qatar by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	26	51	1	0	0	0
15–19	236	788	347	295	231	437
20–24	316	1,644	2,234	3,246	5,789	7,196
25–29	281	1,739	3,408	7,293	13,988	25,501
30–34	179	1,148	2,864	10,120	16,674	34,913
35–39	90	577	1,689	6,583	9,850	18,167
40–44	34	176	557	1,823	2,481	3,575
45–49	8	32	67	152	139	236
50–54	0	1	3	4	2	3
All babies	1,170	6,156	11,170	29,516	49,154	90,028

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

QAT · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Qatar

A baby born in Qatar in 2021 could expect 76.7 years of life, 66.2 of them in full health (95% range 65.4–67.1). That leaves 10.5 years in less than full health, more than the world's 9.5: a longer life usually brings a longer stretch of illness near its end.

Women

65.0 in full health, 13.0 not: 78.0 years

Men

66.5 in full health, 9.5 not: 76.0 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 65.0 healthy years of 78.0. Men: 66.5 of 76.0. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 67.9.

QAT · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Qatar

At the end of 2025, Qatar was hosting 348 people who had crossed a border into it, about 0.1 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad348
Qatar nationals abroad101

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 10 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Qatar living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 5 people from Qatar asked for asylum in another country. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

QAT · of every 100 people

How people live in Qatar

Of every 100 people in Qatar in 2025, 81 lived in a city, 13 in a town or suburb and 6 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 1.9 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

QAT · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Qatar went in school

Of every 100 adults in Qatar in 2020, 3 never went to school and 41 finished upper secondary or went further.

3 never went to school 23 some primary 21 finished primary 12 finished lower secondary 23 finished upper secondary 18 studied after school

Among women, 1.5 of every 100 aged 25–29 never went to school, against 12 of every 100 aged 60–64; among men, 3.5 against 4.

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2040; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2075.

How to read this: every adult here as one of 100 squares. The stronger the colour, the further that person went in school (the Wittgenstein Centre, 2020).

How far the world's people went in school

QAT · cities · 2025

Cities in Qatar

Qatar had 5 cities in 2025, home to 2.5 million people. The largest, Doha, holds 70 of every 100 people in Qatar.

Doha2,193,708
Al Wakrah111,390
Al Khor79,244
Ras Laffan77,887
Al Dhakira52,154

How to read this: one bar for each of the 5 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Qatar are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.