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Beersheba, 
Israel
214,104 people lived in Beersheba in 2025. It is the 2767th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Israel.
Like every city on this site, Beersheba is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Beersheba grew
Count 10 people in Beersheba in 1975 and the same count gives 23.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 309,668 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Beersheba through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Beersheba 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 Beersheba; 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, Beersheba covered 38 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 50 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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 Israel
Its share of Israel
Of every 100 people in Israel in 2025, 2 lived in Beersheba, which is 214,104 people.
How to read this: shrink Israel to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Beersheba; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2746 Manokwari Indonesia214,949
- 2752 Baraut India214,706
- 2762 Arifwala Pakistan214,409
- 2765 Rutshuru Democratic Republic of the Congo214,158
- 2767 Beersheba214,104
- 2769 Juma Uzbekistan214,035
- 2774 Mulia Indonesia213,704
- 2775 Ica Peru213,644
- 2776 Shindand Afghanistan213,596
In Israel, 2025
- 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 Beersheba 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 Beersheba 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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