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Dosso, 
Niger
238,280 people lived in Dosso in 2025. It is the 2458th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Niger.
Like every city on this site, Dosso is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dosso grew
Where Dosso had 10 people in 1975, it had 22.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 333,283 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Dosso through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dosso in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Niger · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Niger and its 35 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Niamey). Dosso 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, Dosso covered 21 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.4 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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 Niger
Its share of Niger
Of every 1,000 people in Niger in 2025, 9 lived in Dosso, which is 238,280 people.
How to read this: shrink Niger to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Dosso; 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
- 2445 Somerset West South Africa239,943
- 2446 Corpus Christi United States239,855
- 2448 Dohrighat India239,251
- 2450 Đà Lạt Vietnam239,212
- 2458 Dosso238,280
- 2459 Derudeib Sudan238,164
- 2460 Ota Japan237,865
- 2461 Diourbel Senegal237,795
- 2463 Jinju-si South Korea237,707
In Niger, 2025
- 722 Zinder740,218
- 813 Maradi666,205
- 1672 Tahoua342,253
- 1712 Agadez335,322
- 2458 Dosso238,280
- 3883 Madaoua156,053
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 Dosso 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 Dosso 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