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Belgrade, 
Serbia
Beograd
1,121,410 people lived in Belgrade in 2025. It is the 463rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the largest in Serbia, where it is the capital.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Belgrade governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
In its own language: Beograd.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Belgrade grew
For every 10 people in Belgrade in 1975, there were 13.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 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: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Belgrade through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Belgrade in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Serbia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Serbia and its 13 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people. Belgrade is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Belgrade covered 191 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 41 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 93%, and its people have grown by 37%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Serbia
Its share of Serbia
Of every 100 people in Serbia in 2025, 17 lived in Belgrade, which is 1.1 million people.
How to read this: shrink Serbia to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Belgrade; 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
- 459 Cologne Germany1,125,292
- 460 Bobo-Dioulasso Burkina Faso1,125,023
- 461 Suhaj Egypt1,123,349
- 462 Auckland New Zealand1,123,094
- 463 Belgrade1,121,410
- 464 Enugu Nigeria1,115,303
- 465 Berhampore India1,109,144
- 466 Minneapolis [Saint Paul] United States1,107,243
- 467 East Jerusalem Palestine1,105,567
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 Belgrade 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 Belgrade 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