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Koforidua, 
Ghana
246,770 people lived in Koforidua in 2025. It is the 2364th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Ghana.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Koforidua's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Koforidua grew
Where Koforidua had 10 people in 1975, it had 40 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 390,243 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: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Koforidua through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Koforidua in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ghana · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ghana and its 58 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Accra). Koforidua 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, Koforidua covered 61 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 66 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.1 times its size, and its people are 4 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 Ghana
Its share of Ghana
Of every 1,000 people in Ghana in 2025, 7 lived in Koforidua, which is 246,770 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Ghana, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Koforidua's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2355 Demba Democratic Republic of the Congo248,191
- 2358 Qus Egypt247,941
- 2360 Kipushi Democratic Republic of the Congo247,546
- 2362 Sreemangal Bangladesh247,298
- 2364 Koforidua246,770
- 2366 Irgalem Ethiopia246,701
- 2368 Phan Thiết Vietnam246,665
- 2371 Obuasi245,920
- 2373 Saidpur Bangladesh245,655
In Ghana, 2025
- 98 Kumasi4,297,984
- 457 Sekondi-Takoradi1,127,436
- 830 Tamale654,868
- 2066 Cape Coast281,579
- 2364 Koforidua246,770
- 2371 Obuasi245,920
- 2405 Ho243,211
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Koforidua 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 Koforidua 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