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Mataram, 
Indonesia
997,132 people lived in Mataram in 2025. It is the 514th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 22nd largest in Indonesia.
Like every city on this site, Mataram 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 Mataram grew
For every 10 people in Mataram in 1975, there were 49 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 2025 and 2030.
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
Mataram through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mataram in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Indonesia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Mataram is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Indonesia in 2025, 389 in all, led by Jakarta, 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, Mataram covered 195 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 31 km² of it. That is 31 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 4.9 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 Indonesia
Its share of Indonesia
Of every 1,000 people in Indonesia in 2025, 3 lived in Mataram, which is 997,132 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Indonesia; the coloured squares live in Mataram. 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
- 510 Cartagena Colombia1,008,584
- 511 Malda India1,001,322
- 512 Jinhua China998,519
- 513 Puducherry India998,290
- 514 Mataram997,132
- 515 Nara Japan993,952
- 516 Mangaluru India993,566
- 517 San Luis Potosí Mexico992,648
- 518 Shiyan China992,165
In Indonesia, 2025
- 386 Samarinda1,325,554
- 427 Pekanbaru1,208,872
- 436 Padang1,184,342
- 438 Bandar Lampung1,184,054
- 514 Mataram997,132
- 525 Jambi980,534
- 528 Pekalongan978,519
- 557 Banjarmasin930,711
- 655 Pontianak808,759
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 Mataram 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 Mataram 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