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Ijebu-Ode, 
Nigeria
500,036 people lived in Ijebu-Ode in 2025. It is the 1105th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 38th largest in Nigeria.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ijebu-Ode grew
Count 10 people in Ijebu-Ode in 1975 and the same count gives 77.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 943,420 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Ijebu-Ode through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ijebu-Ode in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ijebu-Ode is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Nigeria in 2025, 457 in all, led by Lagos, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Ijebu-Ode covered 120 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 51 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.3 times its size, and its people are 7.8 times as many.
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 Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 2 lived in Ijebu-Ode, which is 500,036 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Nigeria; the coloured squares live in Ijebu-Ode. 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
- 1101 Oaxaca de Juárez Mexico502,534
- 1102 Barnaul Russia502,491
- 1103 Lakhimpur India501,540
- 1104 Dairut Egypt501,258
- 1105 Ijebu-Ode500,036
- 1106 Anshun China499,794
- 1107 Bahir Dar Ethiopia498,735
- 1108 Naberezhnye Chelny Russia498,625
- 1109 Hamedan Iran498,337
In Nigeria, 2025
- 933 Yenagoa586,393
- 939 Madalla583,367
- 972 Ondo564,330
- 1076 Minna516,451
- 1105 Ijebu-Ode500,036
- 1131 Ife492,000
- 1167 Gusau475,004
- 1170 Oshogbo473,929
- 1235 Ilesa450,464
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Ijebu-Ode 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 Ijebu-Ode 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