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Maceió, 
Brazil
1,023,645 people lived in Maceió in 2025. It is the 499th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 20th largest in Brazil.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Maceió governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Maceió grew
Where Maceió had 10 people in 1975, it had 37.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.0 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Maceió through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Maceió 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). Maceió 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, Maceió covered 164 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 35 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people are 3.8 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, 5 lived in Maceió, which is 1.0 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Brazil, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Maceió's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 495 Mendoza Argentina1,027,849
- 496 Santos1,027,752
- 497 Quetta Pakistan1,025,211
- 498 Mingora Pakistan1,024,813
- 499 Maceió1,023,645
- 500 Rotterdam Netherlands1,023,590
- 501 Karbala Iraq1,022,893
- 502 Marrakesh Morocco1,021,530
- 503 Otite Nigeria1,020,218
In Brazil, 2025
- 419 Vitória1,226,500
- 471 Natal1,089,473
- 482 João Pessoa1,064,481
- 496 Santos1,027,752
- 499 Maceió1,023,645
- 559 Teresina929,795
- 608 Aracaju859,845
- 631 Campo Grande833,403
- 663 Cuiabá798,772
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 Maceió 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 Maceió 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