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Amman, 
Jordan
Ammān
6,403,666 people lived in Amman in 2025. It is the 62nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Jordan, where it is the capital.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Amman governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
In its own language: Ammān.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Amman grew
Where Amman had 10 people in 1975, it had 77 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 8.4 million people in 2050. It passed five million people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Amman through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Amman in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Jordan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Jordan and its 15 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people. Amman is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Amman covered 530 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 145 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.7 times its size, and its people are 7.7 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Jordan
Its share of Jordan
Of every 100 people in Jordan in 2025, 56 lived in Amman, which is 6.4 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Jordan; the coloured squares live in Amman. 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
- 58 Santiago Chile6,726,045
- 59 Addis Ababa Ethiopia6,705,705
- 60 Abidjan Côte d’Ivoire6,621,711
- 61 Chaozhou China6,407,770
- 62 Amman6,403,666
- 63 Baghdad Iraq6,390,735
- 64 Chengdu China6,139,874
- 65 Nairobi Kenya6,134,334
- 66 Kozhikode India6,123,872
In Jordan, 2025
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 Amman 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 Amman 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