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Mawza`, 
Yemen
150,293 people lived in Mawza` in 2025. It is the 4034th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 27th largest in Yemen.
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 Mawza`'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 Mawza` grew
For every 10 people in Mawza` in 1985, there were 28.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 319,638 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 1985, 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
Mawza` through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mawza` in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Yemen · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yemen and its 111 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Sana'a). Mawza` 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, Mawza` covered 5 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.2 km² of it.
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 Yemen
Its share of Yemen
Of every 1,000 people in Yemen in 2025, 4 lived in Mawza`, which is 150,293 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Yemen, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Mawza`'s share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3916 Sohar Oman154,765
- 3917 Thatta Pakistan154,717
- 3995 Likuni Malawi151,695
- 4014 Tanjung Pinang Indonesia150,872
- 4034 Mawza`150,293
- 4052 Tshimbulu Democratic Republic of the Congo149,595
- 4071 Bairgachhi India148,986
- 4078 Ongata Rongai Kenya148,823
- 4091 Bori Nigeria148,370
In Yemen, 2025
- 3190 Ar Rijad188,715
- 3433 Hayfan176,151
- 3631 Zalmat Hubaysh166,653
- 3800 Ash Shajarah159,506
- 4034 Mawza`150,293
- 4339 Manazil Baradan140,682
- 4404 Khayran138,244
- 4542 `Adan Barakah134,066
- 4839 Rihab126,332
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 Mawza` are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Mawza` 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