Top 20 Most Populated Cities In The World (Population Count)

Here are the top 20 most populated cities in the world

This is the list of top 20 most populated cities in the whole world, including the population count from each city.

Here is the list, according to Reader’s Digest.

#20 Guangzhou, China
Current population: 12,967,862
(3 percent rise in population since 2018)

#19 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Current population: 13,374,275
( population growth is slowing, from a high of 4.2 percent in 1965, down to .61 percent in 2019)

#18 Tianjin, China
Current population: 13,396,402
(population rose 188 percent between the years of 1953 and 1982, 1.3 percent between 2018 and 2019)

#17 Manila, Philippines
Current population: 13,698,889
(has an average of 14,500 people per square kilometer—with an astounding 70,000 per square kilometer in the city’s densest district)

#16 Lagos, Nigeria
Current population: 13,903,620
(66 percent lives in slum conditions)

#15 Kolkata, India
Current population: 14,755,186
(third most inhabited metropolitan area in India)

#14 Istanbul, Turkey
Current population: 14,967,667
(the most populated city in all of Europe, according to World Population Review)

#13 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Current population: 15,057,273
(3 million people living within its urban core)

#12 Chongqing, China
Current population: 15,354,067
(big population spike – 3.5 percent since 2018)

#11 Karachi, Pakistan
Current population: 15,741,406
(population soared up 2.2 percent since 2018)

#10 Osaka, Japan
Current population: 19,222,665
(third largest metropolitan area in Japan)

#9 Beijing, China
Current population: 20,035,455
(population projected to keep on rising all the way through 2035)

#8 Mumbai, India
Current population: 20,185,064
(41 percent of residents in Mumbai and its surrounding regions live in slums)

#7 Dhaka, Bangladesh
Current population: 20,283,552
(2,000 people per day moving into Bangladesh’s capital city)

#6 Cairo, Egypt
Current population: 20,484,965
(its core city population is staggeringly high – 12 million)

#5 Mexico City, Mexico
Current population: 21,671,908
(20 percent of the entire population of Mexico lives in Mexico City)

#4 Sao Paulo, Brazil
Current population: 21,846,507
(the most populous city in the Americas)

#3 Shanghai, China
Current population: 26,317,104
(Experts predict its greater metropolitan regions will hit 50 million residents by 2050)

#2 Delhi, India
Current population: 29,399,141
(over 11,000 people packed into each of its 1484 square kilometers)

#1 Tokyo, Japan
Current population: 37,435,191
(according to RD, the number one most populated metropolitan area in the world saw a population drop of .09 percent in 2019)