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Yamoussoukro, 
Côte d’Ivoire
245,612 people lived in Yamoussoukro in 2025. It is the 2374th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Côte d’Ivoire, where it is the capital.
Like every city on this site, Yamoussoukro 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 Yamoussoukro grew
Count 10 people in Yamoussoukro in 1975 and the same count gives 37.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 443,030 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030.
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
Yamoussoukro through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yamoussoukro in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Côte d’Ivoire · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 47 cities in Côte d’Ivoire in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Abidjan. The ringed dot in colour is Yamoussoukro; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Yamoussoukro covered 36 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.3 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2 times its size, and its people are 3.7 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 Côte d’Ivoire
Its share of Côte d’Ivoire
Of every 1,000 people in Côte d’Ivoire in 2025, 8 lived in Yamoussoukro, which is 245,612 people.
How to read this: shrink Côte d’Ivoire to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Yamoussoukro; 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
- 2366 Irgalem Ethiopia246,701
- 2368 Phan Thiết Vietnam246,665
- 2371 Obuasi Ghana245,920
- 2373 Saidpur Bangladesh245,655
- 2374 Yamoussoukro245,612
- 2376 Shorsh Iraq245,565
- 2377 Dhupguri India245,107
- 2378 Termez Uzbekistan245,080
- 2380 Chernihiv Ukraine244,882
In Côte d’Ivoire, 2025
- 742 Bouaké724,691
- 1584 Daloa360,630
- 1591 Korhogo357,761
- 1982 San-Pédro293,698
- 2374 Yamoussoukro245,612
- 2543 Man230,997
- 2693 Gagnoa219,607
- 2933 Duekoue203,323
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 Yamoussoukro 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 Yamoussoukro 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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