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Ashdod, 
Israel
286,310 people lived in Ashdod in 2025. It is the 2032nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Israel.
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 Ashdod grew
For every 10 people in Ashdod in 1975, there were 43.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 379,600 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 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
Ashdod through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ashdod in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Israel · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 25 cities in Israel in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Tel Aviv. The ringed dot in colour is Ashdod; 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, Ashdod covered 49 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 4.4 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 Israel
Its share of Israel
Of every 100 people in Israel in 2025, 3 lived in Ashdod, which is 286,310 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Israel, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Ashdod's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2027 Vinh Long Vietnam287,685
- 2028 Kunduz Afghanistan287,295
- 2029 Maseru Lesotho286,843
- 2030 Sucre Bolivia286,383
- 2032 Ashdod286,310
- 2033 Jianpur India286,148
- 2034 Osmaniye Türkiye286,108
- 2036 Gondia India285,870
- 2037 Shikarpur Pakistan285,859
In Israel, 2025
- 190 Tel Aviv2,642,872
- 563 Jerusalem920,478
- 1143 Haifa484,770
- 2032 Ashdod286,310
- 2039 Modiin-Maccabim-Reut285,763
- 2195 Nazareth265,611
- 2262 Netanya257,714
- 2334 Rehovot249,925
- 2767 Beersheba214,104
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Ashdod 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 Ashdod 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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