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Yarim, 
Yemen
304,301 people lived in Yarim in 2025. It is the 1886th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Yemen.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Yarim governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yarim grew
Where Yarim had 10 people in 1975, it had 41.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 530,222 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Yarim through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yarim in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Yemen · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yarim 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, Yarim covered 14 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.7 km² of it. That is 6 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown by 70%, and its people are 2.7 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 1,000 people in Yemen in 2025, 7 lived in Yarim, which is 304,301 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Yemen; the coloured squares live in Yarim. 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
- 1882 Veys Iran304,967
- 1883 Benipur India304,786
- 1884 Gaoming China304,429
- 1885 Nukus Uzbekistan304,362
- 1886 Yarim304,301
- 1887 Barmer India304,268
- 1888 Fanling Hong Kong304,190
- 1889 Gao'an China304,111
- 1890 Tagum Philippines303,614
In Yemen, 2025
- 754 Bi'r Rubak712,438
- 1045 'Adan530,573
- 1389 Dhamar406,929
- 1462 Hawrah389,641
- 1886 Yarim304,301
- 2060 Al Majidi282,395
- 2940 Bajil202,715
- 3053 Bayt Sa`dan196,086
- 3150 Al `Udayn190,661
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 Yarim 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 Yarim 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