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Durame, 
Ethiopia
163,896 people lived in Durame in 2025. It is the 3695th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 36th largest in Ethiopia.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Durame governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Durame grew
For every 10 people in Durame in 1980, there were 31.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 308,635 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Durame through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Durame in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ethiopia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 259 cities in Ethiopia in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Addis Ababa. The ringed dot in colour is Durame; 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, Durame covered 15 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.3 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 87%.
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 Ethiopia
Its share of Ethiopia
Of every 1,000 people in Ethiopia in 2025, 1 lived in Durame, which is 163,896 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Ethiopia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Durame's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3667 Akhaura Bangladesh165,093
- 3670 Geita Tanzania165,000
- 3680 Iksan-si South Korea164,566
- 3687 Embu Kenya164,283
- 3695 Durame163,896
- 3696 Cazombo Angola163,870
- 3712 Delduar Bangladesh163,064
- 3713 Kawm Ombo Egypt162,984
- 3721 Samarbagh Pakistan162,603
In Ethiopia, 2025
- 2737 Asella215,594
- 2920 Alaba Kulito204,316
- 3568 Kefole169,474
- 3575 Aleta Wendo169,004
- 3695 Durame163,896
- 3823 Shufune158,225
- 3864 Debre Birhan156,788
- 3914 Sodo154,912
- 4306 Leku141,486
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 Durame are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Durame 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