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Irbid, 
Jordan
792,470 people lived in Irbid in 2025. It is the 669th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Jordan.
Like every city on this site, Irbid is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Irbid grew
Count 10 people in Irbid in 1975 and the same count gives 80.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Irbid through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Irbid in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Jordan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Jordan and its 15 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Amman). Irbid 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, Irbid covered 103 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 21 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 8.1 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Jordan
Its share of Jordan
Of every 100 people in Jordan in 2025, 7 lived in Irbid, which is 792,470 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Jordan; the coloured squares live in Irbid. 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
- 665 Arusha Tanzania795,744
- 666 Chelyabinsk Russia794,411
- 667 Jincheng China794,234
- 668 Oyo Nigeria793,241
- 669 Irbid792,470
- 670 Dnipro Ukraine792,115
- 671 Fergana Uzbekistan791,877
- 672 Kota Kinabalu Malaysia789,885
- 673 Yingkou China786,031
In Jordan, 2025
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 Irbid 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 Irbid 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