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Khairpur, 
Pakistan
244,838 people lived in Khairpur in 2025. It is the 2381st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 70th largest in Pakistan.
Like every city on this site, Khairpur is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Khairpur grew
For every 10 people in Khairpur in 1975, there were 38.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 337,744 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Khairpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Khairpur in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Pakistan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 323 cities in Pakistan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Karachi. The ringed dot in colour is Khairpur; 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, Khairpur covered 30 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.8 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 2.9 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 Pakistan
Its share of Pakistan
Of every 1,000 people in Pakistan in 2025, 1 lived in Khairpur, which is 244,838 people.
How to read this: shrink Pakistan to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Khairpur; 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
- 2376 Shorsh Iraq245,565
- 2377 Dhupguri India245,107
- 2378 Termez Uzbekistan245,080
- 2380 Chernihiv Ukraine244,882
- 2381 Khairpur244,838
- 2384 Cinco Ranch United States244,538
- 2388 Subang Indonesia244,383
- 2389 Kousseri Cameroon244,247
- 2393 Ash Sharai Saudi Arabia244,064
In Pakistan, 2025
- 2224 Kharian262,272
- 2290 Shakar Garh254,655
- 2337 Chakwal249,801
- 2338 Pattoki249,646
- 2381 Khairpur244,838
- 2427 Attock241,714
- 2432 Mianwali241,207
- 2544 Hasilpur230,987
- 2576 Lalamusa228,248
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 Khairpur 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 Khairpur 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