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Albuquerque, 
United States
410,810 people lived in Albuquerque in 2025. It is the 1373rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 46th largest in the United States.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Albuquerque grew
Where Albuquerque had 10 people in 1990, it had 66.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 453,785 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Albuquerque through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Albuquerque in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
United States · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Albuquerque is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of the United States in 2025, 348 in all, led by New York City, 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, Albuquerque covered 177 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 57 km² of it. That is 139 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 12 by 12 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 5.4 times its size, and its people are 6.6 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 the United States
Its share of the United States
Of every 1,000 people in the United States in 2025, 1 lived in Albuquerque, which is 410,810 people.
How to read this: shrink the United States to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Albuquerque; 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
- 1369 Elazığ Türkiye411,268
- 1370 Tashikeruike China411,163
- 1371 Bharuch India411,095
- 1372 Belkuchi Bangladesh410,861
- 1373 Albuquerque410,810
- 1374 Kushtia Bangladesh410,514
- 1375 Kongolo Democratic Republic of the Congo410,371
- 1376 Huangyan District China410,213
- 1377 Windhoek Namibia409,758
In the United States, 2025
- 1284 Sterling Heights435,980
- 1302 Providence429,694
- 1329 Tucson422,107
- 1356 Escondido415,167
- 1373 Albuquerque410,810
- 1397 North Richland Hills404,680
- 1419 Stockton398,470
- 1436 Colorado Springs394,888
- 1475 Pittsburgh385,498
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Albuquerque are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Albuquerque 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