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1,115,303 people lived in Enugu in 2025. It is the 464th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in Nigeria.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Enugu 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 Enugu grew
Where Enugu had 10 people in 1975, it had 42.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.5 million people in 2050. It passed a million 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
Enugu through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Enugu in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Nigeria and its 457 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Lagos). Enugu 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, Enugu covered 195 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 49 km² of it. That is 44 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 4.2 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 5 lived in Enugu, which is 1.1 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Nigeria; the coloured squares live in Enugu. 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
- 460 Bobo-Dioulasso Burkina Faso1,125,023
- 461 Suhaj Egypt1,123,349
- 462 Auckland New Zealand1,123,094
- 463 Belgrade Serbia1,121,410
- 464 Enugu1,115,303
- 465 Berhampore India1,109,144
- 466 Minneapolis [Saint Paul] United States1,107,243
- 467 East Jerusalem Palestine1,105,567
- 468 Solapur India1,102,702
In Nigeria, 2025
- 367 Aboh1,374,320
- 368 Abuja1,373,722
- 399 Ilorin1,282,219
- 420 Maiduguri1,225,505
- 464 Enugu1,115,303
- 503 Otite1,020,218
- 561 Jos923,652
- 565 Ikorodu916,166
- 572 Sokoto903,238
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 Enugu 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 Enugu 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