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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Madagascar was 31,964,956 in 2024 vs 2,857,822 people in Qatar in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Madagascar's population is 33,368,335 people compared to 2,964,497 in Qatar.

Population statistics:

  • Madagascar's population is 11.3 times bigger than Qatar's.
  • Madagascar is ranked the 49th most populous country in the world, while Qatar is the 137th.
  • The countries together account for 0.44% of the world: 0.4% for Madagascar vs 0.04% for Qatar.
  • For the last 10 years, Madagascar has had an average growth rate of +2.6% per year vs +3.86% in Qatar.
  • Since 2005, the population of Madagascar has increased from 19.2M people to 33.4M (74.2% growth), while Qatar has grown from 825K to 2.96M (259.2% growth).
  • Madagascar is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 85.3M people compared to the peak of 6.82M people in 2100 for Qatar.

Madagascar vs Qatar: live population counter

Madagascar Qatar
Current population
33368335
2964497
Population rank 49/197 137/197
Percent of world population 0.4% 0.04%
One net population change
41 seconds
2.6 minutes
One birth every
31.5 seconds
20 minutes
One death every
2.24 minutes
3.55 hours
One migration net change every
4.88 hours
11.4 minutes
Annual migration change -1,795 +46,105
Daily growth/decline +2,107 +553
Annual growth/decline +769,024 +201,790
Annual growth/decline rate +2.47% +7.6%
Population growth rate rank 31/197 1/197

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

Madagascar
Population

Growth rate
Qatar
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Madagascar Qatar Madagascar Qatar
1960 5,111,029 36,010 - -
1961 5,246,158 39,680 2.64% 10.2%
1962 5,384,150 44,630 2.63% 12.5%
1963 5,525,185 50,380 2.62% 12.9%
1964 5,669,863 56,867 2.62% 12.9%
1965 5,819,116 64,065 2.63% 12.7%
1966 5,974,279 72,192 2.67% 12.7%
1967 6,136,486 81,439 2.72% 12.8%
1968 6,306,493 91,749 2.77% 12.7%
1969 6,484,716 103,025 2.83% 12.3%
1970 6,672,003 116,350 2.89% 12.9%
1971 6,868,868 131,346 2.95% 12.9%
1972 7,074,398 146,506 2.99% 11.5%
1973 7,288,048 161,841 3.02% 10.5%
1974 7,509,726 177,362 3.04% 9.59%
1975 7,739,336 193,087 3.06% 8.87%
1976 7,976,831 209,052 3.07% 8.27%
1977 8,222,240 225,285 3.08% 7.77%
1978 8,475,864 241,808 3.08% 7.33%
1979 8,737,581 258,670 3.09% 6.97%
1980 9,006,032 275,913 3.07% 6.67%
1981 9,279,011 293,553 3.03% 6.39%
1982 9,557,671 311,537 3% 6.13%
1983 9,843,044 329,709 2.99% 5.83%
1984 10,134,550 347,878 2.96% 5.51%
1985 10,433,142 365,940 2.95% 5.19%
1986 10,736,857 382,422 2.91% 4.5%
1987 11,047,291 397,005 2.89% 3.81%
1988 11,369,462 411,264 2.92% 3.59%
1989 11,704,998 425,646 2.95% 3.5%
1990 12,055,639 440,175 3% 3.41%
1991 12,421,412 454,853 3.03% 3.33%
1992 12,800,870 469,657 3.05% 3.25%
1993 13,197,345 484,545 3.1% 3.17%
1994 13,613,850 499,459 3.16% 3.08%
1995 14,051,275 514,325 3.21% 2.98%
1996 14,510,711 529,019 3.27% 2.86%
1997 14,990,814 550,500 3.31% 4.06%
1998 15,489,364 580,540 3.33% 5.46%
1999 16,000,506 612,500 3.3% 5.51%
2000 16,516,338 644,989 3.22% 5.3%
2001 17,032,939 677,925 3.13% 5.11%
2002 17,549,913 711,205 3.04% 4.91%
2003 18,071,854 744,682 2.97% 4.71%
2004 18,606,608 773,332 2.96% 3.85%
2005 19,159,707 825,408 2.97% 6.73%
2006 19,730,909 972,831 2.98% 17.9%
2007 20,318,583 1,208,595 2.98% 24.2%
2008 20,923,840 1,426,938 2.98% 18.1%
2009 21,547,280 1,608,903 2.98% 12.8%
2010 22,183,340 1,616,832 2.95% 0.49%
2011 22,822,300 1,624,761 2.88% 0.49%
2012 23,462,438 1,722,438 2.8% 6.01%
2013 24,109,290 1,916,426 2.76% 11.3%
2014 24,764,348 2,151,745 2.72% 12.3%
2015 25,426,702 2,344,557 2.67% 8.96%
2016 26,099,952 2,477,113 2.65% 5.65%
2017 26,788,375 2,545,820 2.64% 2.77%
2018 27,494,926 2,580,734 2.64% 1.37%
2019 28,219,554 2,638,657 2.64% 2.24%
2020 28,953,556 2,794,148 2.6% 5.89%
2021 29,691,083 2,504,910 2.55% -10.4%
2022 30,437,261 2,657,333 2.51% 6.08%
2023 31,195,932 2,656,032 2.49% -0.05%
2024 31,964,956 2,857,822 2.47% 7.6%
2025 32,740,675 2,921,065 2.43% 2.21%
2026 33,522,048 2,975,134 2.39% 1.85%
2027 34,308,785 3,019,526 2.35% 1.49%
2028 35,099,853 3,057,695 2.31% 1.26%
2029 35,894,674 3,092,803 2.26% 1.15%
2030 36,693,182 3,125,174 2.22% 1.05%
2031 37,495,701 3,156,754 2.19% 1.01%
2032 38,301,308 3,189,188 2.15% 1.03%
2033 39,109,380 3,222,500 2.11% 1.04%
2034 39,919,948 3,256,691 2.07% 1.06%
2035 40,733,841 3,291,711 2.04% 1.08%
2036 41,551,309 3,327,585 2.01% 1.09%
2037 42,371,330 3,364,333 1.97% 1.1%
2038 43,194,142 3,401,906 1.94% 1.12%
2039 44,019,285 3,440,293 1.91% 1.13%
2040 44,846,889 3,479,439 1.88% 1.14%
2041 45,676,973 3,519,302 1.85% 1.15%
2042 46,508,810 3,559,840 1.82% 1.15%
2043 47,342,285 3,601,019 1.79% 1.16%
2044 48,176,594 3,642,784 1.76% 1.16%
2045 49,011,270 3,685,111 1.73% 1.16%
2046 49,846,522 3,727,959 1.7% 1.16%
2047 50,682,055 3,771,287 1.68% 1.16%
2048 51,517,342 3,815,108 1.65% 1.16%
2049 52,351,981 3,859,368 1.62% 1.16%
2050 53,185,464 3,904,074 1.59% 1.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Madagascar increased by 6,266,995 people (a 32.7% growth), while Qatar gained 1,519,149 people (a 184% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Madagascar gained 7,941,633 (a 31.2% growth), while Qatar's population increased by 619,940 (a 26.4% growth).

Madagascar was ranked 57th most populous country in 2005 and is 49th 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) Madagascar's population will grow by 59.4% to 53,185,464 people with a rank change from 49th to 37th. 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

Qatar
City Population
Doha 1.19M
Al Khor 31.5K

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