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Ramadi, 
Iraq
449,183 people lived in Ramadi in 2025. It is the 1240th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 18th largest in Iraq.
Like every city on this site, Ramadi 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 Ramadi grew
For every 10 people in Ramadi in 1975, there were 51.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 666,033 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Ramadi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ramadi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Iraq · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ramadi is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Iraq in 2025, 88 in all, led by Baghdad, 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, Ramadi covered 74 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 35 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 5.1 times as many.
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 Iraq
Its share of Iraq
Of every 1,000 people in Iraq in 2025, 10 lived in Ramadi, which is 449,183 people.
How to read this: shrink Iraq to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Ramadi; 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
- 1236 Basti India450,449
- 1237 Vijayapura India450,192
- 1238 Heyuan China449,860
- 1239 Penza Russia449,851
- 1240 Ramadi449,183
- 1241 Mannheim Germany448,203
- 1242 Canning India447,522
- 1243 Zoucheng China447,484
- 1244 Kolwezi Democratic Republic of the Congo446,709
In Iraq, 2025
- 648 Al Mushahidah813,506
- 836 Amarah645,612
- 960 Jafar Muhammad Ali570,883
- 1132 Al-Kut491,247
- 1240 Ramadi449,183
- 1443 As Samawah393,865
- 1586 Fallujah359,695
- 1870 Al-Shatrah307,652
- 2376 Shorsh245,565
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 Ramadi 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 Ramadi 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