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Ratlam, 
India
366,958 people lived in Ratlam in 2025. It is the 1561st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 252nd largest in India.
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 Ratlam's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ratlam grew
For every 10 people in Ratlam in 1975, there were 19.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 425,539 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Ratlam through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ratlam in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ratlam is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of India in 2025, 2,054 in all, led by New Delhi, 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, Ratlam covered 36 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.6 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 2.7 times its size, and its people have grown by 92%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Ratlam in 2025 — about 1 in 4,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1557 Riverside United States367,336
- 1558 Granada Spain367,226
- 1559 Gonaïves Haiti367,158
- 1560 Santa Fe Argentina366,960
- 1561 Ratlam366,958
- 1562 Tong'an China366,871
- 1563 Silvassa366,589
- 1564 Tver Russia366,542
- 1565 Arak Iran366,442
In India, 2025
- 1541 Dewas370,472
- 1548 Dehri368,750
- 1550 Thoothukudi368,221
- 1554 Godhra367,633
- 1561 Ratlam366,958
- 1563 Silvassa366,589
- 1570 Yavatmal363,908
- 1589 Pilibhit358,059
- 1595 Aizawl356,620
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 Ratlam 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 Ratlam 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