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Madaoua, 
Niger
156,053 people lived in Madaoua in 2025. It is the 3883rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Niger.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Madaoua governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Madaoua grew
Count 10 people in Madaoua in 1995 and the same count gives 25.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 313,767 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Madaoua through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Madaoua in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Niger · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 35 cities in Niger in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Niamey. The ringed dot in colour is Madaoua; 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, Madaoua covered 15 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.9 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown by 46%, and its people are 2.6 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 Niger
Its share of Niger
Of every 1,000 people in Niger in 2025, 6 lived in Madaoua, which is 156,053 people.
How to read this: shrink Niger to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Madaoua; 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
- 3864 Debre Birhan Ethiopia156,788
- 3870 Kafr Saqr Egypt156,498
- 3871 Shahabad India156,497
- 3881 Bến Tre Vietnam156,097
- 3883 Madaoua156,053
- 3886 Musanze Rwanda155,984
- 3895 Katoro Tanzania155,625
- 3914 Sodo Ethiopia154,912
- 3916 Sohar Oman154,765
In Niger, 2025
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 Madaoua are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Madaoua 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