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Marawi, 
Philippines
134,181 people lived in Marawi in 2025. It is the 4537th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 44th largest in the Philippines.
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 Marawi's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Marawi grew
Where Marawi had 10 people in 1975, it had 3.1 in 2025, fewer than it started with.
On the UN's projection it will have 135,479 people in 2050. The UN's figures for Marawi fall from 434,582 in 1975 to 128,665 in 2020. The UN rates its own confidence in the 1975 figure as low: 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: 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
Marawi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Marawi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Philippines · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 114 cities in the Philippines in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Manila. The ringed dot in colour is Marawi; 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, Marawi covered 32 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.8 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have fallen by 69%.
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 the Philippines
Its share of the Philippines
Of every 1,000 people in the Philippines in 2025, 1 lived in Marawi, which is 134,181 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in the Philippines, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Marawi's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 4404 Khayran Yemen138,244
- 4439 Lwebo Democratic Republic of the Congo137,354
- 4501 Luiza Democratic Republic of the Congo135,439
- 4522 Okposi Nigeria134,677
- 4537 Marawi134,181
- 4542 `Adan Barakah Yemen134,066
- 4554 Chilanga Zambia133,860
- 4569 Rajoir Bangladesh133,428
- 4637 Alipur Pakistan131,848
In the Philippines, 2025
- 2099 Legazpi276,662
- 2101 San Pablo276,250
- 2132 Cabanatuan272,890
- 2394 Panabo244,050
- 4537 Marawi134,181
- 8410 Jolo74,210
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Marawi 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 Marawi 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