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Maradi, 
Niger
666,205 people lived in Maradi in 2025. It is the 813th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd largest in Niger.
Like every city on this site, Maradi is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Maradi grew
Where Maradi had 10 people in 1975, it had 111.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2040 and 2045.
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
Maradi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Maradi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Niger · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Niger and its 35 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Niamey). Maradi 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, Maradi covered 68 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.6 times its size, and its people are 11.1 times as many.
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 Niger
Its share of Niger
Of every 100 people in Niger in 2025, 2 lived in Maradi, which is 666,205 people.
How to read this: shrink Niger to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Maradi; 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
- 809 Likasi Democratic Republic of the Congo673,034
- 810 Kudus Indonesia671,940
- 811 Veracruz Mexico668,350
- 812 Palermo Italy667,442
- 813 Maradi666,205
- 814 Changwon South Korea665,772
- 815 Fushun China665,286
- 816 Anand India664,789
- 817 St. Louis United States663,392
In Niger, 2025
- 361 Niamey1,401,149
- 722 Zinder740,218
- 813 Maradi666,205
- 1672 Tahoua342,253
- 1712 Agadez335,322
- 2458 Dosso238,280
- 3883 Madaoua156,053
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 Maradi 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 Maradi 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