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Bareilly, 
India
1,635,214 people lived in Bareilly in 2025. It is the 298th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 45th largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Bareilly is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bareilly grew
Count 10 people in Bareilly in 1975 and the same count gives 25.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.9 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1995 and 2000.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Bareilly through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bareilly in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Bareilly; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bareilly covered 166 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.4 times its size, and its people are 2.6 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 India
Its share of India
Of every 1,000 people in India in 2025, 1 lived in Bareilly, which is 1.6 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in India, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Bareilly's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 294 Pointe-Noire Republic of the Congo1,662,537
- 295 Visakhapatnam1,641,957
- 296 Boston United States1,639,797
- 297 Ahwaz Iran1,639,321
- 298 Bareilly1,635,214
- 299 Campinas Brazil1,631,432
- 300 Wuhu China1,631,043
- 301 Zibo China1,620,676
- 302 San Salvador El Salvador1,615,178
In India, 2025
- 274 Ranchi1,819,944
- 283 Aligarh1,729,663
- 287 Dhulian1,699,325
- 295 Visakhapatnam1,641,957
- 298 Bareilly1,635,214
- 307 Maharajganj1,601,258
- 313 Jabalpur1,582,131
- 314 Rajkot1,581,235
- 317 Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar1,567,020
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 Bareilly 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 Bareilly 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