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Koutiala, 
Mali
283,496 people lived in Koutiala in 2025. It is the 2050th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Mali.
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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Koutiala grew
For every 10 people in Koutiala in 1990, there were 50.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 416,003 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Koutiala through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Koutiala in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mali · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Koutiala is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Mali in 2025, 20 in all, led by Bamako, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Koutiala covered 49 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 43 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 5.1 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 Mali
Its share of Mali
Of every 100 people in Mali in 2025, 1 lived in Koutiala, which is 283,496 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Mali; the coloured squares live in Koutiala. 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
- 2042 Tacloban Philippines285,095
- 2046 Zakiganj India284,125
- 2048 Cabimas Venezuela283,656
- 2049 Poway United States283,508
- 2050 Koutiala283,496
- 2053 Awka Nigeria283,069
- 2054 Boisar India283,063
- 2055 Sanhe China282,844
- 2056 Pemalang Indonesia282,807
In Mali, 2025
- 103 Bamako4,244,881
- 1461 Sikasso389,804
- 1962 Ségou295,589
- 2050 Koutiala283,496
- 2083 Kayes278,727
- 3607 Gao167,417
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 Koutiala are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Koutiala 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