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Birnin Kebbi, 
Nigeria
296,331 people lived in Birnin Kebbi in 2025. It is the 1954th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 71st largest in Nigeria.
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 Birnin Kebbi'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 Birnin Kebbi grew
Count 10 people in Birnin Kebbi in 1975 and the same count gives 38.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 385,769 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: 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
Birnin Kebbi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Birnin Kebbi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 457 cities in Nigeria in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Lagos. The ringed dot in colour is Birnin Kebbi; 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, Birnin Kebbi covered 50 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 40 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.9 times its size, and its people are 3.8 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 Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 1 lived in Birnin Kebbi, which is 296,331 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Nigeria, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Birnin Kebbi's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1949 Wenjiang China296,976
- 1950 Valsad India296,851
- 1951 Ankleshwar India296,840
- 1952 Najibabad India296,669
- 1954 Birnin Kebbi296,331
- 1955 Gumi-si South Korea296,323
- 1956 Tanga Tanzania296,202
- 1957 Kankan Guinea296,159
- 1958 Renqiu China295,917
In Nigeria, 2025
- 1874 Ughelli307,005
- 1900 Owo301,931
- 1907 Ado300,622
- 1923 Bugama299,022
- 1954 Birnin Kebbi296,331
- 2007 Okrika289,429
- 2053 Awka283,069
- 2064 Ikirun281,875
- 2095 Iwo277,101
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 Birnin Kebbi 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 Birnin Kebbi 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