Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

Count 10 people in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in 1975 and the same count gives 15.2 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 329,595 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.

How to read this: Spain and its 84 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Madrid). Santa Cruz de Tenerife is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.

In 2025, Santa Cruz de Tenerife covered 61 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 29 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 32%, and its people have grown by 52%.

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 1,000 people in Spain in 2025, 7 lived in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which is 357,753 people.

How to read this: shrink Spain to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Santa Cruz de Tenerife; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 1588 Danyang City China358,677
2. 1589 Pilibhit India358,059
3. 1590 Piracicaba Brazil357,844
4. 1591 Korhogo Côte d’Ivoire357,761
5. 1592 Santa Cruz de Tenerife357,753
6. 1593 Chiniot Pakistan357,181
7. 1594 Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas Ecuador356,829
8. 1595 Aizawl India356,620
9. 1596 Vladikavkaz Russia356,422

In Spain, 2025

1. 1173 Palma de Mallorca473,499
2. 1428 Alicante397,948
3. 1489 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria381,670
4. 1558 Granada367,226
5. 1592 Santa Cruz de Tenerife357,753
6. 1735 Murcia330,966
7. 1778 Valladolid323,201

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.

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The figures for Santa Cruz de Tenerife 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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife 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