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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Qatar was 2,857,822 in 2024 vs 71,668,011 people in Thailand in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Qatar's population is 2,964,497 people compared to 71,619,867 in Thailand.

Population statistics:

  • Thailand's population is 24.2 times bigger than Qatar's.
  • Qatar is ranked the 137th most populous country in the world, while Thailand is the 21st.
  • The countries together account for 0.9% of the world: 0.04% for Qatar vs 0.87% for Thailand.
  • For the last 10 years, Qatar has had an average growth rate of +3.86% per year vs +0.23% in Thailand.
  • Since 2005, the population of Qatar has increased from 825K people to 2.96M (259.2% growth), while Thailand has grown from 66M to 71.6M (8.49% growth).
  • Qatar is projected to reach its peak in 2100 at 6.82M people, while Thailand's population already peaked in 2022 at 71.7M people and is projected to decrease to 45.6M people by 2100.

Qatar vs Thailand: live population counter

Qatar Thailand
Current population
2964497
71619867
Population rank 137/197 21/197
Percent of world population 0.04% 0.87%
One net population change
2.6 minutes
15.3 minutes
One birth every
20 minutes
53.3 seconds
One death every
3.55 hours
49.5 seconds
One migration net change every
11.4 minutes
22.5 minutes
Annual migration change +46,105 +23,321
Daily growth/decline +553 -94
Annual growth/decline +201,790 -34,424
Annual growth/decline rate +7.6% -0.05%
Population growth rate rank 1/197 170/197

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

Qatar
Population

Growth rate
Thailand
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Qatar Thailand Qatar Thailand
1960 36,010 26,851,747 - -
1961 39,680 27,650,334 10.2% 2.97%
1962 44,630 28,481,040 12.5% 3%
1963 50,380 29,342,322 12.9% 3.02%
1964 56,867 30,232,141 12.9% 3.03%
1965 64,065 31,149,337 12.7% 3.03%
1966 72,192 32,086,071 12.7% 3.01%
1967 81,439 33,037,801 12.8% 2.97%
1968 91,749 34,002,560 12.7% 2.92%
1969 103,025 34,973,782 12.3% 2.86%
1970 116,350 35,954,408 12.9% 2.8%
1971 131,346 36,937,387 12.9% 2.73%
1972 146,506 37,933,929 11.5% 2.7%
1973 161,841 38,947,787 10.5% 2.67%
1974 177,362 39,952,891 9.59% 2.58%
1975 193,087 40,940,005 8.87% 2.47%
1976 209,052 41,896,504 8.27% 2.34%
1977 225,285 42,843,974 7.77% 2.26%
1978 241,808 43,788,976 7.33% 2.21%
1979 258,670 44,718,434 6.97% 2.12%
1980 275,913 45,650,022 6.67% 2.08%
1981 293,553 46,575,855 6.39% 2.03%
1982 311,537 47,494,577 6.13% 1.97%
1983 329,709 48,423,309 5.83% 1.96%
1984 347,878 49,351,708 5.51% 1.92%
1985 365,940 50,270,753 5.19% 1.86%
1986 382,422 51,177,834 4.5% 1.8%
1987 397,005 52,074,105 3.81% 1.75%
1988 411,264 52,969,595 3.59% 1.72%
1989 425,646 53,848,956 3.5% 1.66%
1990 440,175 54,738,329 3.41% 1.65%
1991 454,853 55,637,434 3.33% 1.64%
1992 469,657 56,528,834 3.25% 1.6%
1993 484,545 57,408,198 3.17% 1.56%
1994 499,459 58,260,854 3.08% 1.49%
1995 514,325 59,098,232 2.98% 1.44%
1996 529,019 59,920,064 2.86% 1.39%
1997 550,500 60,724,584 4.06% 1.34%
1998 580,540 61,522,630 5.46% 1.31%
1999 612,500 62,299,043 5.51% 1.26%
2000 644,989 63,007,815 5.3% 1.14%
2001 677,925 63,651,141 5.11% 1.02%
2002 711,205 64,266,437 4.91% 0.97%
2003 744,682 64,868,166 4.71% 0.94%
2004 773,332 65,452,047 3.85% 0.9%
2005 825,408 66,017,420 6.73% 0.86%
2006 972,831 66,567,687 17.9% 0.83%
2007 1,208,595 67,102,394 24.2% 0.8%
2008 1,426,938 67,619,830 18.1% 0.77%
2009 1,608,903 68,121,080 12.8% 0.74%
2010 1,616,832 68,579,447 0.49% 0.67%
2011 1,624,761 69,007,208 0.49% 0.62%
2012 1,722,438 69,436,098 6.01% 0.62%
2013 1,916,426 69,845,114 11.3% 0.59%
2014 2,151,745 70,216,367 12.3% 0.53%
2015 2,344,557 70,540,795 8.96% 0.46%
2016 2,477,113 70,859,841 5.65% 0.45%
2017 2,545,820 71,160,187 2.77% 0.42%
2018 2,580,734 71,376,079 1.37% 0.3%
2019 2,638,657 71,522,271 2.24% 0.2%
2020 2,794,148 71,641,484 5.89% 0.17%
2021 2,504,910 71,727,332 -10.4% 0.12%
2022 2,657,333 71,735,329 6.08% 0.01%
2023 2,656,032 71,702,435 -0.05% -0.05%
2024 2,857,822 71,668,011 7.6% -0.05%
2025 2,921,065 71,619,867 2.21% -0.07%
2026 2,975,134 71,559,621 1.85% -0.08%
2027 3,019,526 71,488,156 1.49% -0.1%
2028 3,057,695 71,406,996 1.26% -0.11%
2029 3,092,803 71,316,195 1.15% -0.13%
2030 3,125,174 71,215,017 1.05% -0.14%
2031 3,156,754 71,104,025 1.01% -0.16%
2032 3,189,188 70,982,286 1.03% -0.17%
2033 3,222,500 70,847,947 1.04% -0.19%
2034 3,256,691 70,701,651 1.06% -0.21%
2035 3,291,711 70,540,884 1.08% -0.23%
2036 3,327,585 70,366,496 1.09% -0.25%
2037 3,364,333 70,180,031 1.1% -0.26%
2038 3,401,906 69,979,034 1.12% -0.29%
2039 3,440,293 69,763,928 1.13% -0.31%
2040 3,479,439 69,535,003 1.14% -0.33%
2041 3,519,302 69,288,477 1.15% -0.35%
2042 3,559,840 69,025,348 1.15% -0.38%
2043 3,601,019 68,748,075 1.16% -0.4%
2044 3,642,784 68,456,533 1.16% -0.42%
2045 3,685,111 68,150,148 1.16% -0.45%
2046 3,727,959 67,827,309 1.16% -0.47%
2047 3,771,287 67,489,358 1.16% -0.5%
2048 3,815,108 67,136,737 1.16% -0.52%
2049 3,859,368 66,767,316 1.16% -0.55%
2050 3,904,074 66,382,732 1.16% -0.58%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Qatar increased by 1,519,149 people (a 184% growth), while Thailand gained 4,523,375 people (a 6.85% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Qatar gained 619,940 (a 26.4% growth), while Thailand's population increased by 1,079,072 (a 1.53% growth).

Qatar was ranked 159th most populous country in 2005 and is 137th in 2025. Thailand was ranked 19th in 2005 and ranked 21st 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 Thailand will decrease by 7.31% to 66,382,732 people and rank change from 21st to 31st.

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