Ma'rib has a population of 16,794, making it the 24th largest place we list in Yemen. It is in Ma’rib.
Ma'rib holds under a tenth of one per cent of Yemen's 42,961,653 people. Sanaa, the largest place we list there, is 115 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 13,377, a rise of 26%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Ghayl Bā Wazīr | Muhafazat Hadramaout | 21,259 |
| Zinjibār | Abyan Governorate | 19,879 |
| Al Ḩazm | Al Jawf | 18,241 |
| Mocha | Ta‘izz | 16,794 |
| Aḑ Ḑāli‘ | Aḑ Ḑāli‘ | 14,760 |
| Jawf al Maqbābah | Abyan Governorate | 14,175 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.