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Dhamar, 
Yemen
406,929 people lived in Dhamar in 2025. It is the 1389th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in Yemen.
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 Dhamar's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dhamar grew
For every 10 people in Dhamar in 1975, there were 49.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 690,754 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Dhamar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dhamar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Yemen · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yemen and its 111 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Sana'a). Dhamar 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, Dhamar covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.9 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 4.9 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 Yemen
Its share of Yemen
Of every 1,000 people in Yemen in 2025, 10 lived in Dhamar, which is 406,929 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Yemen, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Dhamar's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1385 Waidhan India408,489
- 1386 Zhaodong China407,507
- 1387 Hat Yai Thailand407,059
- 1388 Jalna India406,973
- 1389 Dhamar406,929
- 1390 Bhind India406,712
- 1391 Resistencia Argentina406,337
- 1392 Abakaliki Nigeria406,105
- 1393 Kumbakonam India405,885
In Yemen, 2025
- 634 Hodeidah827,012
- 635 Ibb826,974
- 754 Bi'r Rubak712,438
- 1045 'Adan530,573
- 1389 Dhamar406,929
- 1462 Hawrah389,641
- 1886 Yarim304,301
- 2060 Al Majidi282,395
- 2940 Bajil202,715
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 Dhamar 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 Dhamar 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