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Ciudad Juárez, 
Mexico
1,212,370 people lived in Ciudad Juárez in 2025. It is the 425th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Mexico.
Like every city on this site, Ciudad Juárez 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 Ciudad Juárez grew
For every 10 people in Ciudad Juárez in 1975, there were 24.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Ciudad Juárez through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ciudad Juárez in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Mexico · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ciudad Juárez is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Mexico in 2025, 186 in all, led by Mexico 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, Ciudad Juárez covered 279 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 87 km² of it. That is 72 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.4 times its size, and its people are 2.4 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Mexico
Its share of Mexico
Of every 1,000 people in Mexico in 2025, 9 lived in Ciudad Juárez, which is 1.2 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Mexico; the coloured squares live in Ciudad Juárez. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 421 Dehradun India1,219,198
- 422 Ashgabat Turkmenistan1,218,323
- 423 Tangier Morocco1,217,976
- 424 Ganzhou China1,216,248
- 425 Ciudad Juárez1,212,370
- 426 Begusarai India1,210,200
- 427 Pekanbaru Indonesia1,208,872
- 428 Kitakyushu Japan1,206,731
- 429 Lyon France1,202,985
In Mexico, 2025
- 320 Tijuana1,557,695
- 335 Toluca1,505,035
- 371 León1,367,521
- 417 Torreón1,227,850
- 425 Ciudad Juárez1,212,370
- 517 San Luis Potosí992,648
- 590 Querétaro880,361
- 611 Aguascalientes856,387
- 618 Mérida847,166
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 Ciudad Juárez 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 Ciudad Juárez 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