Topics
Nsukka, 
Nigeria
830,196 people lived in Nsukka in 2025. It is the 633rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 22nd largest in Nigeria.
Like every city on this site, Nsukka 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 Nsukka grew
For every 10 people in Nsukka in 1975, there were 78.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 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: 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
Nsukka through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nsukka in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 457 cities in Nigeria in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Lagos. The ringed dot in colour is Nsukka; 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, Nsukka covered 197 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 32 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.5 times its size, and its people are 7.9 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 Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 4 lived in Nsukka, which is 830,196 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Nigeria; the coloured squares live in Nsukka. 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
- 629 Kermanshah Iran837,230
- 630 Tengzhou China834,697
- 631 Campo Grande Brazil833,403
- 632 Tirana Albania833,020
- 633 Nsukka830,196
- 634 Hodeidah Yemen827,012
- 635 Ibb Yemen826,974
- 636 Imphal India824,757
- 637 Baoji China823,847
In Nigeria, 2025
- 561 Jos923,652
- 565 Ikorodu916,166
- 572 Sokoto903,238
- 622 Umuahia843,245
- 633 Nsukka830,196
- 659 Abeokuta801,826
- 668 Oyo793,241
- 705 Yola758,153
- 753 Zaria712,688
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 Nsukka 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 Nsukka 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