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Rehovot, 
Israel
249,925 people lived in Rehovot in 2025. It is the 2334th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Israel.
Like every city on this site, Rehovot 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 Rehovot grew
For every 10 people in Rehovot in 1990, there were 45.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 356,101 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Rehovot through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Rehovot in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Israel · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Rehovot is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Israel in 2025, 25 in all, led by Tel Aviv, 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, Rehovot covered 45 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3.6 times its size, and its people are 4.5 times as many.
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 Israel
Its share of Israel
Of every 100 people in Israel in 2025, 3 lived in Rehovot, which is 249,925 people.
How to read this: shrink Israel to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Rehovot; 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
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm Egypt250,476
- 2327 Bukhara Uzbekistan250,377
- 2329 Sikandarabad India250,310
- 2331 Victoria Canada250,244
- 2334 Rehovot249,925
- 2335 Laredo United States249,861
- 2336 Cutler Bay United States249,822
- 2337 Chakwal Pakistan249,801
- 2338 Pattoki Pakistan249,646
In Israel, 2025
- 2032 Ashdod286,310
- 2039 Modiin-Maccabim-Reut285,763
- 2195 Nazareth265,611
- 2262 Netanya257,714
- 2334 Rehovot249,925
- 2767 Beersheba214,104
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Rehovot are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Rehovot 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