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Gwalior, 
India
1,554,246 people lived in Gwalior in 2025. It is the 321st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 50th largest in India.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Gwalior governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Gwalior grew
Where Gwalior had 10 people in 1975, it had 25 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.8 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Gwalior through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Gwalior in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Gwalior; 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, Gwalior covered 121 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 27 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 2.5 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 India
Its share of India
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Gwalior, which is 1.6 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Gwalior's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 317 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar1,567,020
- 318 Cirebon Indonesia1,566,821
- 319 Nouakchott Mauritania1,561,617
- 320 Tijuana Mexico1,557,695
- 321 Gwalior1,554,246
- 322 Davao City Philippines1,546,026
- 323 Vasai-Virar1,542,177
- 324 Mandalay Myanmar1,541,309
- 325 Manama Bahrain1,538,872
In India, 2025
- 307 Maharajganj1,601,258
- 313 Jabalpur1,582,131
- 314 Rajkot1,581,235
- 317 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar1,567,020
- 321 Gwalior1,554,246
- 323 Vasai-Virar1,542,177
- 330 Gorakhpur1,519,206
- 332 Jodhpur1,515,910
- 342 Moradabad1,484,611
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 Gwalior 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 Gwalior 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