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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Morocco was 38,081,173 in 2024 vs 2,857,822 people in Qatar in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Morocco's population is 38,697,192 people compared to 2,964,497 in Qatar.

Population statistics:

  • Morocco's population is 13.1 times bigger than Qatar's.
  • Morocco is ranked the 41st most populous country in the world, while Qatar is the 137th.
  • The countries together account for 0.5% of the world: 0.47% for Morocco vs 0.04% for Qatar.
  • For the last 10 years, Morocco has had an average growth rate of +1.09% per year vs +3.86% in Qatar.
  • Since 2005, the population of Morocco has increased from 30.4M people to 38.7M (27.5% growth), while Qatar has grown from 825K to 2.96M (259.2% growth).
  • Morocco is projected to reach its peak in 2058 at 43.7M people compared to the peak of 6.82M people in 2100 for Qatar.

Morocco vs Qatar: live population counter

Morocco Qatar
Current population
38697192
2964497
Population rank 41/197 137/197
Percent of world population 0.47% 0.04%
One net population change
1.43 minutes
2.6 minutes
One birth every
50.1 seconds
20 minutes
One death every
2.47 minutes
3.55 hours
One migration net change every
11.2 minutes
11.4 minutes
Annual migration change -46,802 +46,105
Daily growth/decline +1,010 +553
Annual growth/decline +368,668 +201,790
Annual growth/decline rate +0.98% +7.6%
Population growth rate rank 105/197 1/197

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

Morocco
Population

Growth rate
Qatar
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Morocco Qatar Morocco Qatar
1960 11,624,933 36,010 - -
1961 11,931,085 39,680 2.63% 10.2%
1962 12,253,092 44,630 2.7% 12.5%
1963 12,577,502 50,380 2.65% 12.9%
1964 12,898,886 56,867 2.56% 12.9%
1965 13,239,171 64,065 2.64% 12.7%
1966 13,597,065 72,192 2.7% 12.7%
1967 13,968,175 81,439 2.73% 12.8%
1968 14,347,899 91,749 2.72% 12.7%
1969 14,734,255 103,025 2.69% 12.3%
1970 15,129,449 116,350 2.68% 12.9%
1971 15,527,225 131,346 2.63% 12.9%
1972 15,924,692 146,506 2.56% 11.5%
1973 16,326,269 161,841 2.52% 10.5%
1974 16,733,842 177,362 2.5% 9.59%
1975 17,150,786 193,087 2.49% 8.87%
1976 17,574,182 209,052 2.47% 8.27%
1977 18,014,756 225,285 2.51% 7.77%
1978 18,477,385 241,808 2.57% 7.33%
1979 18,955,589 258,670 2.59% 6.97%
1980 19,459,943 275,913 2.66% 6.67%
1981 19,985,401 293,553 2.7% 6.39%
1982 20,520,318 311,537 2.68% 6.13%
1983 21,060,696 329,709 2.63% 5.83%
1984 21,593,778 347,878 2.53% 5.51%
1985 22,113,953 365,940 2.41% 5.19%
1986 22,600,803 382,422 2.2% 4.5%
1987 23,054,392 397,005 2.01% 3.81%
1988 23,500,524 411,264 1.94% 3.59%
1989 23,939,414 425,646 1.87% 3.5%
1990 24,375,551 440,175 1.82% 3.41%
1991 24,799,014 454,853 1.74% 3.33%
1992 25,212,468 469,657 1.67% 3.25%
1993 25,614,586 484,545 1.59% 3.17%
1994 26,000,822 499,459 1.51% 3.08%
1995 26,399,429 514,325 1.53% 2.98%
1996 26,808,107 529,019 1.55% 2.86%
1997 27,213,337 550,500 1.51% 4.06%
1998 27,621,648 580,540 1.5% 5.46%
1999 28,027,179 612,500 1.47% 5.51%
2000 28,423,435 644,989 1.41% 5.3%
2001 28,814,643 677,925 1.38% 5.11%
2002 29,198,142 711,205 1.33% 4.91%
2003 29,571,415 744,682 1.28% 4.71%
2004 29,953,018 773,332 1.29% 3.85%
2005 30,358,144 825,408 1.35% 6.73%
2006 30,771,178 972,831 1.36% 17.9%
2007 31,186,468 1,208,595 1.35% 24.2%
2008 31,606,767 1,426,938 1.35% 18.1%
2009 32,030,778 1,608,903 1.34% 12.8%
2010 32,467,016 1,616,832 1.36% 0.49%
2011 32,912,588 1,624,761 1.37% 0.49%
2012 33,355,241 1,722,438 1.34% 6.01%
2013 33,787,571 1,916,426 1.3% 11.3%
2014 34,204,780 2,151,745 1.23% 12.3%
2015 34,607,588 2,344,557 1.18% 8.96%
2016 35,023,457 2,477,113 1.2% 5.65%
2017 35,446,392 2,545,820 1.21% 2.77%
2018 35,839,760 2,580,734 1.11% 1.37%
2019 36,210,898 2,638,657 1.04% 2.24%
2020 36,584,208 2,794,148 1.03% 5.89%
2021 36,954,442 2,504,910 1.01% -10.4%
2022 37,329,064 2,657,333 1.01% 6.08%
2023 37,712,505 2,656,032 1.03% -0.05%
2024 38,081,173 2,857,822 0.98% 7.6%
2025 38,430,771 2,921,065 0.92% 2.21%
2026 38,762,439 2,975,134 0.86% 1.85%
2027 39,080,092 3,019,526 0.82% 1.49%
2028 39,384,122 3,057,695 0.78% 1.26%
2029 39,674,554 3,092,803 0.74% 1.15%
2030 39,953,461 3,125,174 0.7% 1.05%
2031 40,221,736 3,156,754 0.67% 1.01%
2032 40,477,986 3,189,188 0.64% 1.03%
2033 40,722,975 3,222,500 0.61% 1.04%
2034 40,957,241 3,256,691 0.58% 1.06%
2035 41,182,092 3,291,711 0.55% 1.08%
2036 41,398,224 3,327,585 0.52% 1.09%
2037 41,604,025 3,364,333 0.5% 1.1%
2038 41,802,267 3,401,906 0.48% 1.12%
2039 41,990,437 3,440,293 0.45% 1.13%
2040 42,168,202 3,479,439 0.42% 1.14%
2041 42,339,039 3,519,302 0.41% 1.15%
2042 42,500,324 3,559,840 0.38% 1.15%
2043 42,650,491 3,601,019 0.35% 1.16%
2044 42,792,499 3,642,784 0.33% 1.16%
2045 42,925,305 3,685,111 0.31% 1.16%
2046 43,046,175 3,727,959 0.28% 1.16%
2047 43,158,165 3,771,287 0.26% 1.16%
2048 43,262,402 3,815,108 0.24% 1.16%
2049 43,355,724 3,859,368 0.22% 1.16%
2050 43,440,428 3,904,074 0.2% 1.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Morocco increased by 4,249,444 people (a 14% growth), while Qatar gained 1,519,149 people (a 184% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Morocco gained 4,089,604 (a 11.8% growth), while Qatar's population increased by 619,940 (a 26.4% growth).

Morocco was ranked 37th most populous country in 2005 and is 41st 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) Morocco's population will grow by 12.3% to 43,440,428 people with a rank change from 41st to 50th. 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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