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Makiivka, 
Ukraine
200,425 people lived in Makiivka in 2025. It is the 2987th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 26th largest in Ukraine.
Like every city on this site, Makiivka 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 Makiivka grew
For every 10 people in Makiivka in 1975, there were 6.4 in 2025: it shrank.
On the UN's projection it will have 140,399 people in 2050. The UN's figures for Makiivka fall from 320,220 in 1980 to 140,399 in 2050. The UN rates its own confidence in the 1980 figure as high: cities are counted from census maps, and where those are old or coarse the figures are least certain.
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
Makiivka through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Makiivka in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Ukraine · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ukraine and its 79 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Kiev). Makiivka 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, Makiivka covered 73 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 65 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 25%, and its people have fallen by 36%.
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 Ukraine
Its share of Ukraine
Of every 1,000 people in Ukraine in 2025, 5 lived in Makiivka, which is 200,425 people.
How to read this: shrink Ukraine to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Makiivka; 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
- 2981 Omoku Nigeria200,802
- 2983 Kisii Kenya200,579
- 2985 Gamharia India200,505
- 2986 Trishal Bangladesh200,492
- 2987 Makiivka200,425
- 2992 Lincoln Park United States200,040
- 2996 Musangala Democratic Republic of the Congo199,847
- 3014 Tabora Tanzania198,557
- 3015 Kasangulu Democratic Republic of the Congo198,467
In Ukraine, 2025
- 2380 Chernihiv244,882
- 2412 Poltava242,753
- 2605 Sevastopol226,028
- 2975 Kropyvnytskyi200,894
- 2987 Makiivka200,425
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 Makiivka 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 Makiivka 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