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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Poland was 36,554,707 in 2024 vs 2,857,822 people in Qatar in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Poland's population is 36,176,920 people compared to 2,964,497 in Qatar.

Population statistics:

  • Poland's population is 12.2 times bigger than Qatar's.
  • Poland is ranked the 46th most populous country in the world, while Qatar is the 137th.
  • The countries together account for 0.47% of the world: 0.44% for Poland vs 0.04% for Qatar.
  • For the last 10 years, Poland has had an average growth rate of -0.36% per year vs +3.86% in Qatar.
  • Since 2005, the population of Poland has decreased from 38.2M people to 36.2M (5.21% decline), 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 Poland's population already peaked in 1998 at 38.7M people and is projected to decrease to 18.3M people by 2100.

Poland vs Qatar: live population counter

Poland Qatar
Current population
36176920
2964497
Population rank 46/197 137/197
Percent of world population 0.44% 0.04%
One net population change
3.96 minutes
2.6 minutes
One birth every
1.94 minutes
20 minutes
One death every
1.29 minutes
3.55 hours
One migration net change every
2.21 minutes
11.4 minutes
Annual migration change -238,062 +46,105
Daily growth/decline -363 +553
Annual growth/decline -132,646 +201,790
Annual growth/decline rate -0.36% +7.6%
Population growth rate rank 179/197 1/197

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

Poland
Population

Growth rate
Qatar
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Poland Qatar Poland Qatar
1960 29,637,450 36,010 - -
1961 29,964,000 39,680 1.1% 10.2%
1962 30,308,500 44,630 1.15% 12.5%
1963 30,712,000 50,380 1.33% 12.9%
1964 31,139,450 56,867 1.39% 12.9%
1965 31,444,950 64,065 0.98% 12.7%
1966 31,681,000 72,192 0.75% 12.7%
1967 31,987,155 81,439 0.97% 12.8%
1968 32,294,655 91,749 0.96% 12.7%
1969 32,548,300 103,025 0.79% 12.3%
1970 32,664,300 116,350 0.36% 12.9%
1971 32,783,500 131,346 0.36% 12.9%
1972 33,055,650 146,506 0.83% 11.5%
1973 33,357,200 161,841 0.91% 10.5%
1974 33,678,899 177,362 0.96% 9.59%
1975 34,015,199 193,087 1% 8.87%
1976 34,356,300 209,052 1% 8.27%
1977 34,689,050 225,285 0.97% 7.77%
1978 34,965,600 241,808 0.8% 7.33%
1979 35,247,217 258,670 0.81% 6.97%
1980 35,574,150 275,913 0.93% 6.67%
1981 35,898,587 293,553 0.91% 6.39%
1982 36,230,481 311,537 0.92% 6.13%
1983 36,571,808 329,709 0.94% 5.83%
1984 36,904,134 347,878 0.91% 5.51%
1985 37,201,885 365,940 0.81% 5.19%
1986 37,456,119 382,422 0.68% 4.5%
1987 37,668,045 397,005 0.57% 3.81%
1988 37,824,487 411,264 0.42% 3.59%
1989 37,961,529 425,646 0.36% 3.5%
1990 38,110,782 440,175 0.39% 3.41%
1991 38,246,193 454,853 0.36% 3.33%
1992 38,363,667 469,657 0.31% 3.25%
1993 38,461,408 484,545 0.25% 3.17%
1994 38,542,652 499,459 0.21% 3.08%
1995 38,594,998 514,325 0.14% 2.98%
1996 38,624,370 529,019 0.08% 2.86%
1997 38,649,660 550,500 0.07% 4.06%
1998 38,663,481 580,540 0.04% 5.46%
1999 38,660,271 612,500 -0.008% 5.51%
2000 38,258,629 644,989 -1.04% 5.3%
2001 38,248,076 677,925 -0.03% 5.11%
2002 38,230,364 711,205 -0.05% 4.91%
2003 38,204,570 744,682 -0.07% 4.71%
2004 38,182,222 773,332 -0.06% 3.85%
2005 38,165,445 825,408 -0.04% 6.73%
2006 38,141,267 972,831 -0.06% 17.9%
2007 38,120,560 1,208,595 -0.05% 24.2%
2008 38,125,759 1,426,938 0.01% 18.1%
2009 38,151,603 1,608,903 0.07% 12.8%
2010 38,042,794 1,616,832 -0.29% 0.49%
2011 38,063,255 1,624,761 0.05% 0.49%
2012 38,063,164 1,722,438 -0% 6.01%
2013 38,040,196 1,916,426 -0.06% 11.3%
2014 38,011,735 2,151,745 -0.07% 12.3%
2015 37,986,412 2,344,557 -0.07% 8.96%
2016 37,970,087 2,477,113 -0.04% 5.65%
2017 37,974,826 2,545,820 0.01% 2.77%
2018 37,974,750 2,580,734 -0% 1.37%
2019 37,965,475 2,638,657 -0.02% 2.24%
2020 37,515,748 2,794,148 -1.18% 5.89%
2021 36,981,559 2,504,910 -1.42% -10.4%
2022 36,821,749 2,657,333 -0.43% 6.08%
2023 36,687,353 2,656,032 -0.36% -0.05%
2024 36,554,707 2,857,822 -0.36% 7.6%
2025 36,176,920 2,921,065 -1.03% 2.21%
2026 35,894,534 2,975,134 -0.78% 1.85%
2027 35,753,988 3,019,526 -0.39% 1.49%
2028 35,605,295 3,057,695 -0.42% 1.26%
2029 35,447,860 3,092,803 -0.44% 1.15%
2030 35,283,068 3,125,174 -0.46% 1.05%
2031 35,111,838 3,156,754 -0.49% 1.01%
2032 34,934,626 3,189,188 -0.5% 1.03%
2033 34,753,118 3,222,500 -0.52% 1.04%
2034 34,567,292 3,256,691 -0.53% 1.06%
2035 34,377,478 3,291,711 -0.55% 1.08%
2036 34,183,187 3,327,585 -0.57% 1.09%
2037 33,984,777 3,364,333 -0.58% 1.1%
2038 33,782,992 3,401,906 -0.59% 1.12%
2039 33,577,269 3,440,293 -0.61% 1.13%
2040 33,368,049 3,479,439 -0.62% 1.14%
2041 33,156,329 3,519,302 -0.63% 1.15%
2042 32,941,367 3,559,840 -0.65% 1.15%
2043 32,722,775 3,601,019 -0.66% 1.16%
2044 32,501,991 3,642,784 -0.67% 1.16%
2045 32,278,695 3,685,111 -0.69% 1.16%
2046 32,052,771 3,727,959 -0.7% 1.16%
2047 31,824,481 3,771,287 -0.71% 1.16%
2048 31,593,911 3,815,108 -0.72% 1.16%
2049 31,360,713 3,859,368 -0.74% 1.16%
2050 31,124,396 3,904,074 -0.75% 1.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Poland decreased by 179,033 people (a 0.47% decline), while Qatar gained 1,519,149 people (a 184% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Poland lost -1,809,492 (a 4.76% decline), while Qatar's population increased by 619,940 (a 26.4% growth).

Poland was ranked 32nd most populous country in 2005 and is 46th 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) Poland's population will shrink by 14% to 31,124,396 people with a rank change from 46th to 61st. 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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