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Leipzig, 
Germany
542,313 people lived in Leipzig in 2025. It is the 1017th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th largest in Germany.
Like every city on this site, Leipzig 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 Leipzig grew
Leipzig had about as many people in 2025 as in 1975.
On the UN's projection it will have 476,407 people in 2050.
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
Leipzig through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Leipzig in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Germany · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 100 cities in Germany in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Berlin. The ringed dot in colour is Leipzig; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Leipzig covered 165 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 35 km² of it. That is 64 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 57%, and its people are about 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 Germany
Its share of Germany
Of every 1,000 people in Germany in 2025, 6 lived in Leipzig, which is 542,313 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Germany, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Leipzig's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1013 Bulandshahr India543,659
- 1014 Khabarovsk Russia543,422
- 1015 Salt Lake City United States542,449
- 1016 Djelfa Algeria542,414
- 1017 Leipzig542,313
- 1018 Xalapa Mexico542,213
- 1019 Durango Mexico541,787
- 1020 Chengtougu China541,451
- 1021 Kendal Indonesia541,030
In Germany, 2025
- 820 Wuppertal662,663
- 837 Nuremberg644,169
- 887 Hanover611,288
- 989 Dresden554,612
- 1017 Leipzig542,313
- 1241 Mannheim448,203
- 1309 Wiesbaden427,270
- 1325 Bremen422,414
- 1662 Augsburg344,255
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 Leipzig 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 Leipzig 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