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Joinville, 
Brazil
534,074 people lived in Joinville in 2025. It is the 1039th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 32nd largest in Brazil.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Joinville governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Joinville grew
Where Joinville had 10 people in 1990, it had 23 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 600,771 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Joinville through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Joinville 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). Joinville 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, Joinville covered 148 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 36 km² of it. That is 68 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown by 81%, and its people are 2.3 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, 3 lived in Joinville, which is 534,074 people.
How to read this: shrink Brazil to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Joinville; 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
- 1035 Bengbu China535,096
- 1036 Swabi Pakistan535,083
- 1037 Shillong India534,861
- 1038 Ahmednagar India534,622
- 1039 Joinville534,074
- 1040 Novo Hamburgo533,686
- 1041 Kanazawa Japan533,682
- 1042 Genoa Italy532,509
- 1043 Zahedan Iran531,482
In Brazil, 2025
- 883 Uberlândia613,434
- 910 Londrina598,731
- 961 Valparaíso de Goiás570,302
- 1031 Sao Jose dos Campos536,073
- 1039 Joinville534,074
- 1040 Novo Hamburgo533,686
- 1049 Feira de Santana529,185
- 1068 Juiz de Fora518,218
- 1172 Maringá473,708
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 Joinville are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Joinville 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