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Ta'izz, 
Yemen
1,586,739 people lived in Ta'izz in 2025. It is the 311th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 2nd largest in Yemen.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ta'izz grew
Count 10 people in Ta'izz in 1975 and the same count gives 65.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Ta'izz through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ta'izz in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Yemen · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ta'izz is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Yemen in 2025, 111 in all, led by Sana'a, 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, Ta'izz covered 84 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 7 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 85%, and its people are 6.5 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 Yemen
Its share of Yemen
Of every 100 people in Yemen in 2025, 4 lived in Ta'izz, which is 1.6 million people.
How to read this: shrink Yemen to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Ta'izz; 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
- 307 Maharajganj India1,601,258
- 308 Ulaanbaatar Mongolia1,596,556
- 309 Havana Cuba1,593,580
- 310 Hargeisa Somalia1,593,542
- 311 Ta'izz1,586,739
- 312 Erbil Iraq1,582,829
- 313 Jabalpur India1,582,131
- 314 Rajkot India1,581,235
- 315 Datong China1,573,531
In Yemen, 2025
- 111 Sana'a4,018,856
- 311 Ta'izz1,586,739
- 634 Hodeidah827,012
- 635 Ibb826,974
- 754 Bi'r Rubak712,438
- 1045 'Adan530,573
- 1389 Dhamar406,929
- 1462 Hawrah389,641
- 1886 Yarim304,301
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 Ta'izz 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 Ta'izz 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