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Juiz de Fora, 
Brazil
518,218 people lived in Juiz de Fora in 2025. It is the 1068th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 35th largest in Brazil.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Juiz de Fora 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 Juiz de Fora grew
Where Juiz de Fora had 10 people in 1975, it had 31 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 510,948 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Juiz de Fora through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Juiz de Fora in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Juiz de Fora is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Brazil in 2025, 356 in all, led by São Paulo, 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, Juiz de Fora covered 94 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 3.1 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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 2 lived in Juiz de Fora, which is 518,218 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 Juiz de Fora; 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
- 1064 Latur India519,913
- 1065 Liaocheng China519,411
- 1066 Utrecht Netherlands519,200
- 1067 Bhore India518,289
- 1068 Juiz de Fora518,218
- 1069 Dongsheng China518,080
- 1070 Satna India517,402
- 1071 Bukit Mertajam Malaysia517,326
- 1072 Manono Democratic Republic of the Congo517,304
In Brazil, 2025
- 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
- 1176 Macapá471,922
- 1193 Jundiaí465,531
- 1322 Porto Velho422,943
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 Juiz de Fora 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 Juiz de Fora 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