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Dusseldorf, 
Germany
907,386 people lived in Dusseldorf in 2025. It is the 570th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Germany.
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.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Dusseldorf grew
For every 10 people in Dusseldorf in 1975, there were 12.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 853,457 people in 2050.
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
Dusseldorf through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dusseldorf in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Germany · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Germany and its 100 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Berlin). Dusseldorf 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, Dusseldorf covered 241 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 56 km² of it. That is 62 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 84%, and its people have grown by 22%.
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 Germany
Its share of Germany
Of every 100 people in Germany in 2025, 1 lived in Dusseldorf, which is 907,386 people.
How to read this: shrink Germany to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Dusseldorf; 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
- 566 Shiraz Iran914,496
- 567 Blantyre Malawi909,289
- 568 Weifang China908,584
- 569 Sulaymaniyah Iraq907,815
- 570 Dusseldorf907,386
- 571 Tbilisi Georgia906,746
- 572 Sokoto Nigeria903,238
- 573 Frankfurt900,483
- 574 Kisangani Democratic Republic of the Congo900,330
In Germany, 2025
- 183 Essen2,717,087
- 275 Munich1,815,022
- 280 Hamburg1,759,377
- 459 Cologne1,125,292
- 570 Dusseldorf907,386
- 573 Frankfurt900,483
- 576 Stuttgart899,103
- 708 Bonn756,044
- 717 Dortmund748,106
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Dusseldorf 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 Dusseldorf 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