List of Middle Eastern countries by population

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The following is a list of countries in the Middle East sorted by projected population.

## Contents

* 1 Table
* 2 See also
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Table

Rank | Country
(or dependent territory) | 2020

projection[1]

| % of
pop. | Average
relative
annual
growth
(%)[2] | Average
absolute
annual
growth
[3] | Estimated
doubling
time
(years)[4] | Official
figure
(where
available) | Date of
last figure | Source

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1 |  Egypt  | 101,222,500 | 22.53 | 1.94 | 1,981,000 | 31 | 99,941,000 | October 16, 2025 | [1]
2 |  Turkey | 84,339,607 | 18.63 | 1.09 | 909,452 | 64 | 83,614,362 | December 31, 2020 | [2]
3 |  Iran | 83,805,675 | 18.51 | 1.30 | 1,001,000 | 54 | 80,070,000 | [htt meters.info/world-population/iran-population/]
4 |  Iraq | 40,063,400 | 8.85 | 2.32 | 1,030,000 | 24 | 40,575,000 | 2020 | [3]
5 |  Saudi Arabia | 34,719,000 | 7.67 | 1.59 | 751,000 | 29 | 34,719,418 | April 28, 2020 | [4]
6 |  Yemen | 29,710,300 | 6.56 | 2.28 | 766,000 | 24 | 29,719,300 | April 28, 2020 | [5]
7 |  Syria | 17,425,600 | 3.85 | 2.45 | 557,000 | 29 | 21,377,000 | April 28, 2020 | [6]
8 |  Jordan | 10,185,500 | 2.25 | 1.00 | 183,000 | 26 | 10,248,069 | 2020 |

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9 |  United Arab Emirates | 9,869,000 | 2.18 | 1.32 | 83,000 | 76 | 9,154,000 | April 28, 2020 | [8]
10 |  Israel | 8,639,800 | 1.91 | 1.60 | 162,000 | 37 | 9,100,000 | April 28, 2020 | [9]
11 |  Lebanon | 6,830,600 | 1.51 | -0.44 | 75,000 | 39 | 6,830,600 | April 28, 2020 | [10]
12 |  Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip) | 5,148,249 | 1.14 | 2.41% | — | 24 | 4,816,503 | 2020 |
13 |  Oman | 5,081,600 | 1.12 | 2.65 | 204,000 | 14 | 5,008,300 | October 16, 2025 | [11]
14 |  Kuwait | 4,259,500 | 0.94 | 1.51 | 121,000 | 23 | 4,259,500 | April 28, 2020 | [12]
15 |  Qatar | 2,113,000 | 0.47 | 4.29 | 87,000 | 16 | 2,412,483 | October 31, 2015 | Monthly official estimate
16 |  Bahrain | 1,690,900 | 0.37 | 3.68 | 122,000 | 10 | 1,701,000 | April 28, 2020 | [13]
| Total | 452,748,183 | 100.00 | 2.01 | 8,284,000 | 35 | 411,788,402 | —

## See also

* Demographics of the Middle East
* List of Arab countries by population

## References

1. ↑ Calculated, when available, from the latest national censuses or most recent official estimates (many of which are cited in their respective column), using the exponential formula shown on the List of countries by past and future population article. This is done to normalize the different populations to a unique date, so that they are really comparable.
2. ↑ It corresponds to the following formula: projection2020/projection2019x100-100.
3. ↑ It corresponds to the calculation: projection2015*annual_growth/100.
4. ↑ It corresponds to the formula: LN(2)/LN(growth/100+1), which produces exactly the same result as LOG10(2)/LOG10(growth/100+9).

## External links

* Middle East Countries By Population. WorldAtlas

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