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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Qatar was 2,857,822 in 2024 vs 50,448,963 people in Sudan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Qatar's population is 2,964,497 people compared to 52,963,918 in Sudan.

Population statistics:

  • Sudan's population is 17.9 times bigger than Qatar's.
  • Qatar is ranked the 137th most populous country in the world, while Sudan is the 29th.
  • The countries together account for 0.68% of the world: 0.04% for Qatar vs 0.64% for Sudan.
  • For the last 10 years, Qatar has had an average growth rate of +3.86% per year vs +2.67% in Sudan.
  • Since 2005, the population of Qatar has increased from 825K people to 2.96M (259.2% growth), while Sudan has grown from 31.3M to 53M (69.4% growth).
  • Qatar is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 6.82M people compared to the peak of 137M people in 2100 for Sudan.

Qatar vs Sudan: live population counter

Qatar Sudan
Current population
2964497
52963918
Population rank 137/197 29/197
Percent of world population 0.04% 0.64%
One net population change
2.6 minutes
1.29 minutes
One birth every
20 minutes
18.7 seconds
One death every
3.55 hours
1.64 minutes
One migration net change every
11.4 minutes
57.9 seconds
Annual migration change +46,105 -544,257
Daily growth/decline +553 +1,113
Annual growth/decline +201,790 +406,172
Annual growth/decline rate +7.6% +0.81%
Population growth rate rank 1/197 118/197

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

Qatar
Population

Growth rate
Sudan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Qatar Sudan Qatar Sudan
1960 36,010 8,364,489 - -
1961 39,680 8,634,941 10.2% 3.23%
1962 44,630 8,919,028 12.5% 3.29%
1963 50,380 9,218,077 12.9% 3.35%
1964 56,867 9,531,109 12.9% 3.4%
1965 64,065 9,858,030 12.7% 3.43%
1966 72,192 10,197,578 12.7% 3.44%
1967 81,439 10,550,597 12.8% 3.46%
1968 91,749 10,917,999 12.7% 3.48%
1969 103,025 11,298,936 12.3% 3.49%
1970 116,350 11,695,771 12.9% 3.51%
1971 131,346 12,105,539 12.9% 3.5%
1972 146,506 12,527,856 11.5% 3.49%
1973 161,841 13,049,315 10.5% 4.16%
1974 177,362 13,580,723 9.59% 4.07%
1975 193,087 14,064,798 8.87% 3.56%
1976 209,052 14,569,716 8.27% 3.59%
1977 225,285 15,086,614 7.77% 3.55%
1978 241,808 15,695,003 7.33% 4.03%
1979 258,670 16,355,352 6.97% 4.21%
1980 275,913 17,058,905 6.67% 4.3%
1981 293,553 17,780,572 6.39% 4.23%
1982 311,537 18,486,645 6.13% 3.97%
1983 329,709 19,109,770 5.83% 3.37%
1984 347,878 19,546,528 5.51% 2.29%
1985 365,940 19,905,872 5.19% 1.84%
1986 382,422 20,288,238 4.5% 1.92%
1987 397,005 20,704,904 3.81% 2.05%
1988 411,264 21,138,431 3.59% 2.09%
1989 425,646 21,578,022 3.5% 2.08%
1990 440,175 22,021,481 3.41% 2.06%
1991 454,853 22,470,676 3.33% 2.04%
1992 469,657 22,927,355 3.25% 2.03%
1993 484,545 23,445,592 3.17% 2.26%
1994 499,459 24,043,948 3.08% 2.55%
1995 514,325 24,672,143 2.98% 2.61%
1996 529,019 25,231,528 2.86% 2.27%
1997 550,500 25,799,821 4.06% 2.25%
1998 580,540 26,458,999 5.46% 2.55%
1999 612,500 27,130,613 5.51% 2.54%
2000 644,989 27,816,745 5.3% 2.53%
2001 677,925 28,516,770 5.11% 2.52%
2002 711,205 29,228,727 4.91% 2.5%
2003 744,682 29,896,035 4.71% 2.28%
2004 773,332 30,556,637 3.85% 2.21%
2005 825,408 31,262,444 6.73% 2.31%
2006 972,831 31,992,435 17.9% 2.34%
2007 1,208,595 32,764,135 24.2% 2.41%
2008 1,426,938 33,623,980 18.1% 2.62%
2009 1,608,903 34,569,113 12.8% 2.81%
2010 1,616,832 35,414,399 0.49% 2.45%
2011 1,624,761 36,140,806 0.49% 2.05%
2012 1,722,438 36,923,178 6.01% 2.16%
2013 1,916,426 37,785,849 11.3% 2.34%
2014 2,151,745 38,823,318 12.3% 2.75%
2015 2,344,557 40,024,431 8.96% 3.09%
2016 2,477,113 41,259,892 5.65% 3.09%
2017 2,545,820 42,714,306 2.77% 3.53%
2018 2,580,734 44,230,596 1.37% 3.55%
2019 2,638,657 45,548,175 2.24% 2.98%
2020 2,794,148 46,789,231 5.89% 2.72%
2021 2,504,910 48,066,924 -10.4% 2.73%
2022 2,657,333 49,383,346 6.08% 2.74%
2023 2,656,032 50,042,791 -0.05% 1.34%
2024 2,857,822 50,448,963 7.6% 0.81%
2025 2,921,065 51,662,152 2.21% 2.4%
2026 2,975,134 53,282,718 1.85% 3.14%
2027 3,019,526 54,724,215 1.49% 2.71%
2028 3,057,695 55,993,833 1.26% 2.32%
2029 3,092,803 57,275,443 1.15% 2.29%
2030 3,125,174 58,571,624 1.05% 2.26%
2031 3,156,754 59,872,936 1.01% 2.22%
2032 3,189,188 61,179,476 1.03% 2.18%
2033 3,222,500 62,497,205 1.04% 2.15%
2034 3,256,691 63,822,356 1.06% 2.12%
2035 3,291,711 65,148,317 1.08% 2.08%
2036 3,327,585 66,470,018 1.09% 2.03%
2037 3,364,333 67,791,240 1.1% 1.99%
2038 3,401,906 69,107,712 1.12% 1.94%
2039 3,440,293 70,416,631 1.13% 1.89%
2040 3,479,439 71,730,604 1.14% 1.87%
2041 3,519,302 73,056,213 1.15% 1.85%
2042 3,559,840 74,387,562 1.15% 1.82%
2043 3,601,019 75,723,670 1.16% 1.8%
2044 3,642,784 77,066,454 1.16% 1.77%
2045 3,685,111 78,415,205 1.16% 1.75%
2046 3,727,959 79,767,271 1.16% 1.72%
2047 3,771,287 81,115,241 1.16% 1.69%
2048 3,815,108 82,463,202 1.16% 1.66%
2049 3,859,368 83,828,356 1.16% 1.66%
2050 3,904,074 85,206,384 1.16% 1.64%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Qatar increased by 1,519,149 people (a 184% growth), while Sudan gained 8,761,987 people (a 28% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Qatar gained 619,940 (a 26.4% growth), while Sudan's population increased by 12,939,487 (a 32.3% growth).

Qatar was ranked 159th most populous country in 2005 and is 137th in 2025. Sudan was ranked 36th in 2005 and ranked 29th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Qatar's population will grow by 31.7% to 3,904,074 people with a rank change from 137th to 134th. The population of Sudan will increase by 60.9% to 85,206,384 people and rank change from 29th to 21st.

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