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Ibagué, 
Colombia
494,316 people lived in Ibagué in 2025. It is the 1122nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Colombia.
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 Ibagué'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 Ibagué grew
For every 10 people in Ibagué in 1975, there were 22.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 484,922 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Ibagué through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ibagué in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Colombia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Colombia and its 81 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Bogotá). Ibagué 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, Ibagué covered 50 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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 Colombia
Its share of Colombia
Of every 1,000 people in Colombia in 2025, 9 lived in Ibagué, which is 494,316 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Colombia, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Ibagué's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1118 Osh Kyrgyzstan495,400
- 1119 Baishan China495,030
- 1120 Fatehpur India494,897
- 1121 Poznan Poland494,839
- 1122 Ibagué494,316
- 1123 Karnal India494,241
- 1124 Himeji Japan494,064
- 1125 Siping China493,984
- 1126 Hapur India493,837
In Colombia, 2025
- 555 Bucaramanga939,291
- 617 Cúcuta848,408
- 902 Pereira602,831
- 954 Valledupar574,824
- 1122 Ibagué494,316
- 1259 Santa Marta442,455
- 1266 Manizales440,407
- 1272 Buenaventura438,063
- 1484 Villavicencio383,028
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 Ibagué 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 Ibagué 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