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Ahmedabad, 
India
7,632,408 people lived in Ahmedabad in 2025. It is the 44th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in India.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ahmedabad grew
Count 10 people in Ahmedabad in 1975 and the same count gives 29.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 8.2 million people in 2050. It passed five million people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Ahmedabad through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ahmedabad in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ahmedabad is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of India in 2025, 2,054 in all, led by New Delhi, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Ahmedabad covered 365 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 118 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 3 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 100 people in India
Its share of India
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 5 lived in Ahmedabad, which is 7.6 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Ahmedabad's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 40 Bandung Indonesia8,909,104
- 41 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia8,443,731
- 42 Dar es Salaam Tanzania7,795,114
- 43 Suzhou China7,731,101
- 44 Ahmedabad7,632,408
- 45 Hangzhou China7,500,208
- 46 Wuhan China7,363,548
- 47 Tianjin China7,285,342
- 48 Alexandria Egypt7,266,957
In India, 2025
- 24 Bengaluru13,187,098
- 29 Chennai11,153,205
- 34 Hajipur9,941,510
- 37 Hyderabad9,190,795
- 44 Ahmedabad7,632,408
- 53 Surat6,908,925
- 55 Pune6,817,951
- 66 Kozhikode6,123,872
- 80 Kochi5,077,670
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Ahmedabad are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 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 Ahmedabad 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 →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries