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Jamshedpur, 
India
1,956,840 people lived in Jamshedpur in 2025. It is the 253rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 39th largest in India.
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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jamshedpur grew
For every 10 people in Jamshedpur in 1975, there were 25.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.1 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Jamshedpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jamshedpur in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: India and its 2,054 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is New Delhi). Jamshedpur 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, Jamshedpur covered 158 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 40 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 86%, and its people are 2.6 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 India
Its share of India
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Jamshedpur, which is 2.0 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 Jamshedpur; 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
- 249 Santa Cruz de la Sierra Bolivia1,980,432
- 250 Baku Azerbaijan1,977,897
- 251 Phoenix United States1,972,021
- 252 Sapporo Japan1,964,519
- 253 Jamshedpur1,956,840
- 254 Minsk Belarus1,950,680
- 255 Puebla Mexico1,947,971
- 256 Freetown Sierra Leone1,935,761
- 257 N'Djaména Chad1,934,909
In India, 2025
- 236 Madurai2,138,746
- 245 Dhanbad2,020,181
- 246 Mehsi2,018,610
- 247 Nashik1,996,763
- 253 Jamshedpur1,956,840
- 264 Bibhutpur1,904,411
- 274 Ranchi1,819,944
- 283 Aligarh1,729,663
- 287 Dhulian1,699,325
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 Jamshedpur 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 Jamshedpur 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