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Ribeirao Preto, 
Brazil
615,090 people lived in Ribeirao Preto in 2025. It is the 878th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 27th largest in Brazil.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Ribeirao Preto grew
Count 10 people in Ribeirao Preto in 1975 and the same count gives 39.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 614,181 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Ribeirao Preto through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Ribeirao Preto in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Brazil · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Ribeirao Preto 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, Ribeirao Preto covered 110 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 36 km² of it. That is 58 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 4 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 Brazil
Its share of Brazil
Of every 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 3 lived in Ribeirao Preto, which is 615,090 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 Ribeirao Preto; 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
- 874 Farrukhabad India615,831
- 875 Bristol United Kingdom615,703
- 876 Ambala India615,565
- 877 Reynosa Mexico615,168
- 878 Ribeirao Preto615,090
- 879 Mar del Plata Argentina614,979
- 880 Lipa Philippines614,898
- 881 Salta Argentina613,956
- 882 Suining China613,678
In Brazil, 2025
- 631 Campo Grande833,403
- 663 Cuiabá798,772
- 782 Sorocaba689,775
- 790 Florianópolis682,065
- 878 Ribeirao Preto615,090
- 883 Uberlândia613,434
- 910 Londrina598,731
- 961 Valparaíso de Goiás570,302
- 1031 Sao Jose dos Campos536,073
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 Ribeirao Preto 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 Ribeirao Preto 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