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Rihab, 
Yemen
126,332 people lived in Rihab in 2025. It is the 4839th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 36th 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 Rihab's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Rihab grew
Count 10 people in Rihab in 1995 and the same count gives 23.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 324,264 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2040 and 2045. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Rihab through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Rihab 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). Rihab 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, Rihab covered 6 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 0.1 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, 3 lived in Rihab, which is 126,332 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Yemen; the coloured squares live in Rihab. 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
- 4681 Areka Ethiopia130,386
- 4695 Sandila India130,012
- 4719 Domeez Iraq129,444
- 4771 Mtwara Tanzania128,086
- 4839 Rihab126,332
- 4847 Chauri Chaura India126,176
- 4864 Delingat Egypt125,765
- 4901 Hisor Tajikistan125,054
- 4902 Basha Ethiopia124,959
In Yemen, 2025
- 4034 Mawza`150,293
- 4339 Manazil Baradan140,682
- 4404 Khayran138,244
- 4542 `Adan Barakah134,066
- 4839 Rihab126,332
- 7728 Dawran AlJadeedah80,686
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 Rihab are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Rihab 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 →
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