Qatar's population growth (annual %) was 3.92% in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 4.66 percentage points from 8.58% in 2015.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 3.92% | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | 5.73% | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | 8.58% | 2015 |
| Highest | 21.7% | 2007 |
| Lowest | -10.93% | 2021 |
| Average since 2016 | 2.37% | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | 9.71% | 1961 |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Qatar's population growth (annual %) fell 3.4 percentage points on 2024 (from 7.32% to 3.92%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.14 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.05 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 16.83 percentage points in 2022 and the biggest yearly fall was 16.65 percentage points in 2021. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains less than 1% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2025, Qatar had the 5th highest value of the 217 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Qatar | 3.92% | 2025 |
| World | 0.91% | 2025 |
| High income | 0.41% | 2025 |
Closest to Qatar in the 2025 ranking
- United Arab Emirates — 1st of 217: 4.68%
- Saudi Arabia — 2nd of 217: 4.63%
- Oman — 3rd of 217: 3.96%
- Syrian Arab Republic — 5th of 217: 3.77%
- Chad — 6th of 217: 3.41%
- Central African Republic — 7th of 217: 3.37%
What this measures
Annual population growth rate for year t is the exponential rate of growth of midyear population from year t-1 to t, expressed as a percentage. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 65 values
| Year | Population growth (annual %) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.92 |
| 2024 | 7.32 |
| 2023 | -0.049 |
| 2022 | 5.91 |
| 2021 | -10.93 |
| 2020 | 5.73 |
| 2019 | 2.22 |
| 2018 | 1.36 |
| 2017 | 2.74 |
| 2016 | 5.5 |
| 2015 |
Population growth (annual %) in nearby economies
- Afghanistan — 2.77% (2025)
- Algeria — 1.32% (2025)
- Bahrain — 0.73% (2025)
- Djibouti — 1.31% (2025)
- Egypt, Arab Rep. — 1.56% (2025)
- Iran, Islamic Rep. — 0.92% (2025)
- Iraq — 2.1% (2025)
- Israel — 1.2% (2025)
- Jordan — -0.28% (2025)
- Kuwait — -0.65% (2025)
- Lebanon — 0.75% (2025)
- Libya
More health data for Qatar
- Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 8.74% (2025)
- Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 3.63% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female — 218,948 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 25.48% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male — 226,893 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 10.74% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total — 445,841 (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 15% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population) — 8.98% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, male (% of male population)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Qatar's population growth (annual %)?
- 3.92% in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1961?
- It is down 5.78 percentage points from 9.71% in 1961. The highest value was 21.7% in 2007 and the lowest -10.93% in 2021.
- How does Qatar rank?
- 5th highest of 217 economies with data for 2025.
- Is the latest change in population growth (annual %) unusual for Qatar?
- In 2025, Qatar's population growth (annual %) fell 3.4 percentage points on 2024 (from 7.32% to 3.92%). Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1995 to 2024), the average change was +0.14 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 6.05 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SP.POP.GROW, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), note: Derived from total population, publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs), note: Derived from total population; Demographic Statistics, Eurosta… Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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