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Pereira, 
Colombia
602,831 people lived in Pereira in 2025. It is the 902nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Colombia.
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 Pereira'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 Pereira grew
Count 10 people in Pereira in 1975 and the same count gives 26.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 592,126 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Pereira through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pereira in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Colombia · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Colombia and its 81 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Bogotá). Pereira 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, Pereira covered 66 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 15 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 2.6 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 Colombia
Its share of Colombia
Of every 100 people in Colombia in 2025, 1 lived in Pereira, which is 602,831 people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Colombia; the coloured squares live in Pereira. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 898 El Paso United States605,731
- 899 Anqiu China605,324
- 900 Ottawa Canada605,121
- 901 Tampico Mexico603,035
- 902 Pereira602,831
- 903 Changzhi China602,771
- 904 Tyumen Russia602,535
- 905 Khan Yunis Palestine601,421
- 906 Jangalpara India600,501
In Colombia, 2025
- 228 Barranquilla2,208,021
- 510 Cartagena1,008,584
- 555 Bucaramanga939,291
- 617 Cúcuta848,408
- 902 Pereira602,831
- 954 Valledupar574,824
- 1122 Ibagué494,316
- 1259 Santa Marta442,455
- 1266 Manizales440,407
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 Pereira 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 Pereira 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