São José do Rio Preto, Brazil

For every 10 people in São José do Rio Preto in 1980, there were 31.8 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 414,636 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.

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.

How to read this: every dot is one of the 356 cities in Brazil in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being São Paulo. The ringed dot in colour is São José do Rio Preto; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, São José do Rio Preto covered 92 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 71 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 3.2 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 1,000 people in Brazil in 2025, 2 lived in São José do Rio Preto, which is 414,406 people.

How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Brazil; the coloured squares live in São José do Rio Preto. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.

In the world, 2025

1. 1354 Fuyang China415,492
2. 1355 Moçâmedes Angola415,361
3. 1356 Escondido United States415,167
4. 1357 Batangas City Philippines415,103
5. 1358 São José do Rio Preto414,406
6. 1359 Sareyn Iran413,772
7. 1360 Charsadda Pakistan413,686
8. 1361 Port Moresby Papua New Guinea413,223
9. 1362 Hathras India413,122

In Brazil, 2025

1. 1176 Macapá471,922
2. 1193 Jundiaí465,531
3. 1322 Porto Velho422,943
4. 1344 Petrolina418,619
5. 1358 São José do Rio Preto414,406
6. 1368 Americana412,133
7. 1425 Volta Redonda398,107
8. 1481 Caxias do Sul383,774
9. 1547 Campina Grande369,184

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 São José do Rio Preto are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 São José do Rio 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 →

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