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`Adan Barakah, 
Yemen
134,066 people lived in `Adan Barakah in 2025. It is the 4542nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 32nd largest in Yemen.
Like every city on this site, `Adan Barakah is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How `Adan Barakah grew
Count 10 people in `Adan Barakah in 1990 and the same count gives 23.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 366,492 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
`Adan Barakah through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in `Adan Barakah in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Yemen · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 111 cities in Yemen in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Sana'a. The ringed dot in colour is `Adan Barakah; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, `Adan Barakah covered 3 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.0 km² of it.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Yemen
Its share of Yemen
Of every 1,000 people in Yemen in 2025, 3 lived in `Adan Barakah, which is 134,066 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Yemen; the coloured squares live in `Adan Barakah. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 4439 Lwebo Democratic Republic of the Congo137,354
- 4501 Luiza Democratic Republic of the Congo135,439
- 4522 Okposi Nigeria134,677
- 4537 Marawi Philippines134,181
- 4542 `Adan Barakah134,066
- 4554 Chilanga Zambia133,860
- 4569 Rajoir Bangladesh133,428
- 4637 Alipur Pakistan131,848
- 4657 Kayanza Burundi131,192
In Yemen, 2025
- 3800 Ash Shajarah159,506
- 4034 Mawza`150,293
- 4339 Manazil Baradan140,682
- 4404 Khayran138,244
- 4542 `Adan Barakah134,066
- 4839 Rihab126,332
- 7728 Dawran AlJadeedah80,686
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for `Adan Barakah are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one `Adan Barakah publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
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