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Eldoret, 
Kenya
418,175 people lived in Eldoret in 2025. It is the 1346th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th largest in Kenya.
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 Eldoret'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 Eldoret grew
Count 10 people in Eldoret in 1990 and the same count gives 50.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 571,608 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Eldoret through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Eldoret in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Kenya · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 50 cities in Kenya in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Nairobi. The ringed dot in colour is Eldoret; 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, Eldoret covered 92 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 5 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 Kenya
Its share of Kenya
Of every 1,000 people in Kenya in 2025, 7 lived in Eldoret, which is 418,175 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Kenya; the coloured squares live in Eldoret. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1342 Mykolaiv Ukraine419,484
- 1343 Ikot Ekpene Nigeria418,650
- 1344 Petrolina Brazil418,619
- 1345 Nice France418,294
- 1346 Eldoret418,175
- 1347 Chandrapur India416,903
- 1348 Taixing China416,677
- 1349 Uvira Democratic Republic of the Congo416,523
- 1350 Lishui China416,469
In Kenya, 2025
- 65 Nairobi6,134,334
- 348 Mombasa1,456,207
- 955 Nakuru574,091
- 1299 Kisumu430,532
- 1346 Eldoret418,175
- 1720 Garissa333,505
- 2526 Mutuati232,440
- 2983 Kisii200,579
- 3249 Naivasha185,944
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 Eldoret are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Eldoret 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