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Ambatolahy II, 
Madagascar
158,588 people lived in Ambatolahy II in 2025. It is the 3817th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Madagascar.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Ambatolahy II's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ambatolahy II grew
Count 10 people in Ambatolahy II in 1980 and the same count gives 31.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 345,372 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Ambatolahy II through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ambatolahy II in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Madagascar · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 24 cities in Madagascar in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Antananarivo. The ringed dot in colour is Ambatolahy II; 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, Ambatolahy II covered 31 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.7 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 Madagascar
Its share of Madagascar
Of every 1,000 people in Madagascar in 2025, 5 lived in Ambatolahy II, which is 158,588 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Madagascar; the coloured squares live in Ambatolahy II. 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
- 3768 Kahama Tanzania160,713
- 3796 Masaka Uganda159,564
- 3800 Ash Shajarah Yemen159,506
- 3815 San José del Cabo Mexico158,693
- 3817 Ambatolahy II158,588
- 3823 Shufune Ethiopia158,225
- 3825 Musumba Democratic Republic of the Congo158,159
- 3846 ad-Damer Sudan157,497
- 3864 Debre Birhan Ethiopia156,788
In Madagascar, 2025
- 118 Antananarivo3,916,219
- 1838 Antsiramandroso312,434
- 2155 Ambano270,357
- 3543 Amparihimahitsy170,981
- 3817 Ambatolahy II158,588
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 Ambatolahy II are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Ambatolahy II 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