Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, Rig-e Malek's population was 1,690 in 277 households, when it was a village in
Ladiz Rural District of the former
Mirjaveh District of
Zahedan County. The following census in 2011 counted 1,497 people in 313 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the village as 1,688 people in 410 households, by which time the district had been separated from the county in the establishment of Mirjaveh County. The rural district was transferred to the new
Ladiz District, and Rig-e Malek was transferred to Rig-e Malek Rural District created in the new Rig-e Malek District. After the census, the village was elevated to the status of a city. ==See also==