Topics
Tirupati, 
India
539,275 people lived in Tirupati in 2025. It is the 1024th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 162nd largest in India.
Like every city on this site, Tirupati is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tirupati grew
Where Tirupati had 10 people in 1975, it had 36.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 586,265 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Tirupati through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tirupati in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
India · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,054 cities in India in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New Delhi. The ringed dot in colour is Tirupati; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Tirupati covered 76 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 12.5 times its size, and its people are 3 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 India
Its share of India
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in India lived in Tirupati in 2025 — about 1 in 2,703.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1020 Chengtougu China541,451
- 1021 Kendal Indonesia541,030
- 1022 Honolulu United States540,683
- 1023 Matamoros Mexico540,236
- 1024 Tirupati539,275
- 1025 Mbeya Tanzania539,248
- 1026 Kupang Indonesia538,998
- 1027 Shaoyang China538,432
- 1028 Fengrun China538,206
In India, 2025
- 1005 Arrah547,584
- 1008 Silchar544,936
- 1011 Hisar543,775
- 1013 Bulandshahr543,659
- 1024 Tirupati539,275
- 1032 Bettiah535,979
- 1037 Shillong534,861
- 1038 Ahmednagar534,622
- 1053 Rohtak526,540
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 Tirupati 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 Tirupati 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