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Jabalpur, 
India
1,582,131 people lived in Jabalpur in 2025. It is the 313th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 47th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Jabalpur 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 Jabalpur grew
Where Jabalpur had 10 people in 1975, it had 22.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.7 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Jabalpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jabalpur 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 Jabalpur; 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, Jabalpur covered 145 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 33 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.5 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 India
Its share of India
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Jabalpur, which is 1.6 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in India; the coloured squares live in Jabalpur. 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
- 309 Havana Cuba1,593,580
- 310 Hargeisa Somalia1,593,542
- 311 Ta'izz Yemen1,586,739
- 312 Erbil Iraq1,582,829
- 313 Jabalpur1,582,131
- 314 Rajkot1,581,235
- 315 Datong China1,573,531
- 316 Uyo Nigeria1,567,115
- 317 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar1,567,020
In India, 2025
- 287 Dhulian1,699,325
- 295 Visakhapatnam1,641,957
- 298 Bareilly1,635,214
- 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
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 Jabalpur 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 Jabalpur 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