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Ikere-Ekiti, 
Nigeria
338,367 people lived in Ikere-Ekiti in 2025. It is the 1690th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 61st 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 Ikere-Ekiti grew
For every 10 people in Ikere-Ekiti in 1975, there were 32.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 464,569 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Ikere-Ekiti through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ikere-Ekiti 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). Ikere-Ekiti 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, Ikere-Ekiti covered 29 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.9 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 3.2 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, 1 lived in Ikere-Ekiti, which is 338,367 people.
How to read this: shrink Nigeria to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Ikere-Ekiti; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1686 Çerkezköy Türkiye338,995
- 1687 Yan'an China338,883
- 1688 Naogaon Bangladesh338,623
- 1689 Naga Philippines338,596
- 1690 Ikere-Ekiti338,367
- 1691 Rubavu Rwanda337,963
- 1692 Franca Brazil337,878
- 1693 Vilnius Lithuania337,871
- 1694 Sihui China337,299
In Nigeria, 2025
- 1531 Abonnema372,654
- 1535 Oyigbo371,913
- 1543 Daura369,916
- 1556 Gboko367,407
- 1690 Ikere-Ekiti338,367
- 1708 Bonny335,542
- 1721 Gwagwalada333,464
- 1736 Ikare330,941
- 1737 Erin-osun330,484
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 Ikere-Ekiti 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 Ikere-Ekiti 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