Ago-Iwoye, Nigeria

For every 10 people in Ago-Iwoye in 1985, there were 31 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 325,454 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 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.

projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low

How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.

How to read this: every dot is one of the 457 cities in Nigeria in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Lagos. The ringed dot in colour is Ago-Iwoye; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Ago-Iwoye covered 22 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.7 km² of it. That is 25 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 3.1 times as many.

How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.

Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 1 lived in Ago-Iwoye, which is 189,841 people.

How to read this: shrink Nigeria to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Ago-Iwoye; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 3154 Mokolo Cameroon190,418
2. 3161 Nabire Indonesia190,211
3. 3164 Ibrat Uzbekistan189,898
4. 3166 Rubaya Democratic Republic of the Congo189,880
5. 3167 Ago-Iwoye189,841
6. 3169 Abu Gharaq Iraq189,692
7. 3187 Mathbarer Char Bangladesh188,871
8. 3190 Ar Rijad Yemen188,715
9. 3194 Al Qurna Iraq188,604

In Nigeria, 2025

1. 2861 Uromi208,157
2. 2971 Afikpo201,084
3. 2981 Omoku200,802
4. 3032 Dutse197,314
5. 3167 Ago-Iwoye189,841
6. 3209 Amassoma188,265
7. 3278 Akugba183,921
8. 3628 Unguwar Arewa166,817
9. 4091 Bori148,370

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.

Nigeria · All the world's cities

The figures for Ago-Iwoye are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Ago-Iwoye 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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