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Lipa, 
Philippines
614,898 people lived in Lipa in 2025. It is the 880th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in the Philippines.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Lipa's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Lipa grew
Where Lipa had 10 people in 1985, it had 91.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 774,165 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Lipa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lipa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Philippines · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: the Philippines and its 114 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Manila). Lipa 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, Lipa covered 156 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 24 km² of it. That is 39 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 10 times its size, and its people are 9.2 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in the Philippines
Its share of the Philippines
Of every 1,000 people in the Philippines in 2025, 5 lived in Lipa, which is 614,898 people.
How to read this: shrink the Philippines to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Lipa; 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
- 876 Ambala India615,565
- 877 Reynosa Mexico615,168
- 878 Ribeirao Preto Brazil615,090
- 879 Mar del Plata Argentina614,979
- 880 Lipa614,898
- 881 Salta Argentina613,956
- 882 Suining China613,678
- 883 Uberlândia Brazil613,434
- 884 Bissau Guinea-Bissau612,643
In the Philippines, 2025
- 545 Dagupan [Lingayen]953,092
- 601 Cagayan de Oro870,291
- 750 Iloilo City717,038
- 828 Bacolod655,836
- 880 Lipa614,898
- 971 Baguio565,522
- 1081 Zamboanga City513,813
- 1110 General Santos498,098
- 1357 Batangas City415,103
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Lipa are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Lipa 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