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Population in Italy compared to Qatar: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Italy was 58,986,023 in 2024 vs 2,857,822 people in Qatar in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Italy's population is 58,790,597 people compared to 2,964,497 in Qatar.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 19.8 times bigger than Qatar's.
  • Italy is ranked the 25th most populous country in the world, while Qatar is the 137th.
  • The countries together account for 0.75% of the world: 0.71% for Italy vs 0.04% for Qatar.
  • For the last 10 years, Italy has had an average growth rate of -0.2% per year vs +3.86% in Qatar.
  • Since 2005, the population of Italy has increased from 58.2M people to 58.8M (1.07% growth), while Qatar has grown from 825K to 2.96M (259.2% growth).
  • Qatar is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 6.82M people, while Italy's population already peaked in 2014 at 60.3M people and is projected to decrease to 35.2M people by 2100.

Italy vs Qatar: live population counter

Italy Qatar
Current population
58790597
2964497
Population rank 25/197 137/197
Percent of world population 0.71% 0.04%
One net population change
1.18 hours
2.6 minutes
One birth every
1.39 minutes
20 minutes
One death every
47.7 seconds
3.55 hours
One migration net change every
5.52 minutes
11.4 minutes
Annual migration change +95,246 +46,105
Daily growth/decline -20 +553
Annual growth/decline -7,452 +201,790
Annual growth/decline rate -0.01% +7.6%
Population growth rate rank 166/197 1/197

Italy and Qatar: population history and growth rate by year chart

Italy
Population

Growth rate
Qatar
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Italy Qatar Italy Qatar
1960 50,199,700 36,010 - -
1961 50,536,350 39,680 0.67% 10.2%
1962 50,879,450 44,630 0.68% 12.5%
1963 51,252,000 50,380 0.73% 12.9%
1964 51,675,350 56,867 0.83% 12.9%
1965 52,112,350 64,065 0.85% 12.7%
1966 52,519,000 72,192 0.78% 12.7%
1967 52,900,500 81,439 0.73% 12.8%
1968 53,235,750 91,749 0.63% 12.7%
1969 53,537,950 103,025 0.57% 12.3%
1970 53,821,850 116,350 0.53% 12.9%
1971 54,073,490 131,346 0.47% 12.9%
1972 54,381,345 146,506 0.57% 11.5%
1973 54,751,406 161,841 0.68% 10.5%
1974 55,110,868 177,362 0.66% 9.59%
1975 55,441,001 193,087 0.6% 8.87%
1976 55,718,260 209,052 0.5% 8.27%
1977 55,955,411 225,285 0.43% 7.77%
1978 56,155,143 241,808 0.36% 7.33%
1979 56,317,749 258,670 0.29% 6.97%
1980 56,433,883 275,913 0.21% 6.67%
1981 56,501,675 293,553 0.12% 6.39%
1982 56,543,548 311,537 0.07% 6.13%
1983 56,564,074 329,709 0.04% 5.83%
1984 56,576,718 347,878 0.02% 5.51%
1985 56,593,071 365,940 0.03% 5.19%
1986 56,596,155 382,422 0.005% 4.5%
1987 56,601,931 397,005 0.01% 3.81%
1988 56,629,288 411,264 0.05% 3.59%
1989 56,671,781 425,646 0.08% 3.5%
1990 56,719,240 440,175 0.08% 3.41%
1991 56,758,521 454,853 0.07% 3.33%
1992 56,797,087 469,657 0.07% 3.25%
1993 56,831,821 484,545 0.06% 3.17%
1994 56,843,400 499,459 0.02% 3.08%
1995 56,844,303 514,325 0.002% 2.98%
1996 56,860,281 529,019 0.03% 2.86%
1997 56,890,372 550,500 0.05% 4.06%
1998 56,906,744 580,540 0.03% 5.46%
1999 56,916,317 612,500 0.02% 5.51%
2000 56,942,108 644,989 0.05% 5.3%
2001 56,976,981 677,925 0.06% 5.11%
2002 57,089,824 711,205 0.2% 4.91%
2003 57,399,184 744,682 0.54% 4.71%
2004 57,828,179 773,332 0.75% 3.85%
2005 58,166,682 825,408 0.59% 6.73%
2006 58,399,861 972,831 0.4% 17.9%
2007 58,756,247 1,208,595 0.61% 24.2%
2008 59,211,181 1,426,938 0.77% 18.1%
2009 59,555,454 1,608,903 0.58% 12.8%
2010 59,819,407 1,616,832 0.44% 0.49%
2011 60,026,841 1,624,761 0.35% 0.49%
2012 60,191,247 1,722,438 0.27% 6.01%
2013 60,311,613 1,916,426 0.2% 11.3%
2014 60,320,707 2,151,745 0.02% 12.3%
2015 60,229,605 2,344,557 -0.15% 8.96%
2016 60,115,223 2,477,113 -0.19% 5.65%
2017 60,002,252 2,545,820 -0.19% 2.77%
2018 60,148,658 2,580,734 0.24% 1.37%
2019 59,729,081 2,638,657 -0.7% 2.24%
2020 59,438,851 2,794,148 -0.49% 5.89%
2021 59,133,173 2,504,910 -0.51% -10.4%
2022 59,013,667 2,657,333 -0.2% 6.08%
2023 58,993,475 2,656,032 -0.03% -0.05%
2024 58,986,023 2,857,822 -0.01% 7.6%
2025 58,790,597 2,921,065 -0.33% 2.21%
2026 58,571,823 2,975,134 -0.37% 1.85%
2027 58,335,864 3,019,526 -0.4% 1.49%
2028 58,094,373 3,057,695 -0.41% 1.26%
2029 57,851,042 3,092,803 -0.42% 1.15%
2030 57,597,622 3,125,174 -0.44% 1.05%
2031 57,333,277 3,156,754 -0.46% 1.01%
2032 57,071,235 3,189,188 -0.46% 1.03%
2033 56,812,747 3,222,500 -0.45% 1.04%
2034 56,548,816 3,256,691 -0.46% 1.06%
2035 56,279,536 3,291,711 -0.48% 1.08%
2036 56,009,844 3,327,585 -0.48% 1.09%
2037 55,737,477 3,364,333 -0.49% 1.1%
2038 55,460,735 3,401,906 -0.5% 1.12%
2039 55,177,508 3,440,293 -0.51% 1.13%
2040 54,889,107 3,479,439 -0.52% 1.14%
2041 54,601,628 3,519,302 -0.52% 1.15%
2042 54,307,412 3,559,840 -0.54% 1.15%
2043 53,997,106 3,601,019 -0.57% 1.16%
2044 53,679,603 3,642,784 -0.59% 1.16%
2045 53,357,669 3,685,111 -0.6% 1.16%
2046 53,025,288 3,727,959 -0.62% 1.16%
2047 52,680,150 3,771,287 -0.65% 1.16%
2048 52,324,241 3,815,108 -0.68% 1.16%
2049 51,959,050 3,859,368 -0.7% 1.16%
2050 51,579,060 3,904,074 -0.73% 1.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Italy increased by 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth), while Qatar gained 1,519,149 people (a 184% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Italy lost -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline), while Qatar's population increased by 619,940 (a 26.4% growth).

Italy was ranked 23rd most populous country in 2005 and is 25th in 2025. Qatar was ranked 159th in 2005 and ranked 137th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Italy's population will shrink by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people with a rank change from 25th to 40th. The population of Qatar will increase by 31.7% to 3,904,074 people and rank change from 137th to 134th.

Biggest cities by population

Italy
City Population
Rome 2.75M
Milan 1.35M
Naples 913K
Turin 842K
Palermo 630K
Genoa 559K
Bologna 388K
Florence 361K
Bari 316K
Catania 312K
Qatar
City Population
Doha 1.19M
Al Khor 31.5K

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