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Jaipur, 
India
4,071,754 people lived in Jaipur in 2025. It is the 110th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Jaipur 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 Jaipur grew
Where Jaipur had 10 people in 1975, it had 42.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 4.5 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Jaipur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jaipur 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 Jaipur; 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, Jaipur covered 449 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 127 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 4.3 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, 3 lived in Jaipur, which is 4.1 million people.
How to read this: shrink India to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Jaipur; 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
- 106 Wenzhou China4,158,195
- 107 Sydney Australia4,150,917
- 108 Guadalajara Mexico4,135,440
- 109 Douala Cameroon4,104,516
- 110 Jaipur4,071,754
- 111 Sana'a Yemen4,018,856
- 112 Taiyuan China4,005,816
- 113 Puning China3,989,322
- 114 Barcelona Spain3,982,704
In India, 2025
- 66 Kozhikode6,123,872
- 80 Kochi5,077,670
- 82 Lucknow5,052,444
- 97 Kanpur4,329,973
- 110 Jaipur4,071,754
- 119 Varanasi3,858,863
- 136 Indore3,476,423
- 141 Patna3,309,383
- 147 Nagpur3,257,841
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 Jaipur 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 Jaipur 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