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Caruaru, 
Brazil
299,805 people lived in Caruaru in 2025. It is the 1916th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 61st largest in Brazil.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Caruaru's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Caruaru grew
For every 10 people in Caruaru in 1975, there were 24.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 298,848 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Caruaru through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Caruaru in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Brazil and its 356 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is São Paulo). Caruaru 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, Caruaru covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 2.5 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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 1 lived in Caruaru, which is 299,805 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Brazil, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Caruaru's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1912 Biskra Algeria300,313
- 1913 Orizaba Mexico300,041
- 1914 Lublin Poland300,013
- 1915 Merca Somalia299,906
- 1916 Caruaru299,805
- 1917 Menongue Angola299,802
- 1918 Anantnag India299,385
- 1919 Bukittinggi Indonesia299,353
- 1920 Saransk Russia299,262
In Brazil, 2025
- 1766 Canoas325,022
- 1834 Uberaba312,745
- 1851 Campos dos Goytacazes310,590
- 1857 Taubaté310,170
- 1916 Caruaru299,805
- 2495 Blumenau234,982
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 Caruaru 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 Caruaru 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