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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Pakistan was 251,269,164 in 2024 vs 2,857,822 people in Qatar in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Pakistan's population is 258,497,127 people compared to 2,964,497 in Qatar.

Population statistics:

  • Pakistan's population is 87.2 times bigger than Qatar's.
  • Pakistan is ranked the 5th most populous country in the world, while Qatar is the 137th.
  • The countries together account for 3.16% of the world: 3.13% for Pakistan vs 0.04% for Qatar.
  • For the last 10 years, Pakistan has had an average growth rate of +1.6% per year vs +3.86% in Qatar.
  • Since 2005, the population of Pakistan has increased from 175M people to 258M (47.3% growth), while Qatar has grown from 825K to 2.96M (259.2% growth).
  • Pakistan is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 511M people compared to the peak of 6.82M people in 2100 for Qatar.

Pakistan vs Qatar: live population counter

Pakistan Qatar
Current population
258497127
2964497
Population rank 5/197 137/197
Percent of world population 3.13% 0.04%
One net population change
8.38 seconds
2.6 minutes
One birth every
4.58 seconds
20 minutes
One death every
19.7 seconds
3.55 hours
One migration net change every
22.5 seconds
11.4 minutes
Annual migration change -1,401,173 +46,105
Daily growth/decline +10,314 +553
Annual growth/decline +3,764,669 +201,790
Annual growth/decline rate +1.52% +7.6%
Population growth rate rank 73/197 1/197

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

Pakistan
Population

Growth rate
Qatar
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Pakistan Qatar Pakistan Qatar
1960 45,709,310 36,010 - -
1961 46,921,277 39,680 2.65% 10.2%
1962 48,156,128 44,630 2.63% 12.5%
1963 49,447,776 50,380 2.68% 12.9%
1964 50,799,999 56,867 2.73% 12.9%
1965 52,209,010 64,065 2.77% 12.7%
1966 53,678,667 72,192 2.81% 12.7%
1967 55,214,768 81,439 2.86% 12.8%
1968 56,810,507 91,749 2.89% 12.7%
1969 58,460,939 103,025 2.91% 12.3%
1970 60,166,719 116,350 2.92% 12.9%
1971 61,847,899 131,346 2.79% 12.9%
1972 63,583,194 146,506 2.81% 11.5%
1973 65,461,912 161,841 2.95% 10.5%
1974 67,415,487 177,362 2.98% 9.59%
1975 69,461,175 193,087 3.03% 8.87%
1976 71,620,254 209,052 3.11% 8.27%
1977 73,901,827 225,285 3.19% 7.77%
1978 76,307,379 241,808 3.26% 7.33%
1979 78,997,039 258,670 3.52% 6.97%
1980 82,291,010 275,913 4.17% 6.67%
1981 85,802,049 293,553 4.27% 6.39%
1982 89,089,246 311,537 3.83% 6.13%
1983 92,227,711 329,709 3.52% 5.83%
1984 95,164,936 347,878 3.18% 5.51%
1985 98,229,285 365,940 3.22% 5.19%
1986 101,606,764 382,422 3.44% 4.5%
1987 105,130,717 397,005 3.47% 3.81%
1988 108,724,739 411,264 3.42% 3.59%
1989 112,336,629 425,646 3.32% 3.5%
1990 116,155,576 440,175 3.4% 3.41%
1991 120,060,406 454,853 3.36% 3.33%
1992 123,546,848 469,657 2.9% 3.25%
1993 127,020,117 484,545 2.81% 3.17%
1994 130,748,083 499,459 2.93% 3.08%
1995 134,582,253 514,325 2.93% 2.98%
1996 138,557,092 529,019 2.95% 2.86%
1997 142,531,804 550,500 2.87% 4.06%
1998 146,522,356 580,540 2.8% 5.46%
1999 150,565,377 612,500 2.76% 5.51%
2000 154,879,127 644,989 2.87% 5.3%
2001 159,270,907 677,925 2.84% 5.11%
2002 163,222,549 711,205 2.48% 4.91%
2003 167,110,248 744,682 2.38% 4.71%
2004 171,286,000 773,332 2.5% 3.85%
2005 175,453,212 825,408 2.43% 6.73%
2006 179,682,690 972,831 2.41% 17.9%
2007 184,493,231 1,208,595 2.68% 24.2%
2008 189,499,113 1,426,938 2.71% 18.1%
2009 194,376,534 1,608,903 2.57% 12.8%
2010 199,239,047 1,616,832 2.5% 0.49%
2011 203,746,065 1,624,761 2.26% 0.49%
2012 207,667,125 1,722,438 1.92% 6.01%
2013 211,073,978 1,916,426 1.64% 11.3%
2014 214,264,647 2,151,745 1.51% 12.3%
2015 217,290,883 2,344,557 1.41% 8.96%
2016 220,138,869 2,477,113 1.31% 5.65%
2017 223,273,967 2,545,820 1.42% 2.77%
2018 226,928,892 2,580,734 1.64% 1.37%
2019 230,800,899 2,638,657 1.71% 2.24%
2020 235,001,746 2,794,148 1.82% 5.89%
2021 239,477,801 2,504,910 1.9% -10.4%
2022 243,700,667 2,657,333 1.76% 6.08%
2023 247,504,495 2,656,032 1.56% -0.05%
2024 251,269,164 2,857,822 1.52% 7.6%
2025 255,219,564 2,921,065 1.57% 2.21%
2026 259,299,796 2,975,134 1.6% 1.85%
2027 263,515,827 3,019,526 1.63% 1.49%
2028 267,881,923 3,057,695 1.66% 1.26%
2029 272,337,520 3,092,803 1.66% 1.15%
2030 276,883,261 3,125,174 1.67% 1.05%
2031 281,528,070 3,156,754 1.68% 1.01%
2032 286,241,141 3,189,188 1.67% 1.03%
2033 291,012,268 3,222,500 1.67% 1.04%
2034 295,820,153 3,256,691 1.65% 1.06%
2035 300,643,518 3,291,711 1.63% 1.08%
2036 305,491,504 3,327,585 1.61% 1.09%
2037 310,353,293 3,364,333 1.59% 1.1%
2038 315,227,709 3,401,906 1.57% 1.12%
2039 320,105,882 3,440,293 1.55% 1.13%
2040 324,937,703 3,479,439 1.51% 1.14%
2041 329,746,478 3,519,302 1.48% 1.15%
2042 334,551,874 3,559,840 1.46% 1.15%
2043 339,334,851 3,601,019 1.43% 1.16%
2044 344,095,467 3,642,784 1.4% 1.16%
2045 348,837,732 3,685,111 1.38% 1.16%
2046 353,552,859 3,727,959 1.35% 1.16%
2047 358,207,159 3,771,287 1.32% 1.16%
2048 362,796,532 3,815,108 1.28% 1.16%
2049 367,344,429 3,859,368 1.25% 1.16%
2050 371,863,804 3,904,074 1.23% 1.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Pakistan increased by 41,837,671 people (a 23.8% growth), while Qatar gained 1,519,149 people (a 184% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Pakistan gained 41,206,244 (a 19% growth), while Qatar's population increased by 619,940 (a 26.4% growth).

Pakistan was ranked 6th most populous country in 2005 and is 5th 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) Pakistan's population will grow by 43.9% to 371,863,804 people with a rank change from 5th to 4th. The population of Qatar will increase by 31.7% to 3,904,074 people and rank change from 137th to 134th.

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