West Palm Beach, United States

Count 10 people in West Palm Beach in 1990 and the same count gives 70 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 759,941 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.

projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low

How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.

How to read this: every dot is one of the 348 cities in the United States in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being New York City. The ringed dot in colour is West Palm Beach; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, West Palm Beach covered 339 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 79 km² of it. That is 128 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 11 by 11 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 7.1 times its size, and its people are 7 times as many.

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 the United States in 2025, 2 lived in West Palm Beach, which is 617,035 people.

How to read this: shrink the United States to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in West Palm Beach; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 869 Bannu Pakistan620,328
2. 870 Hengshui China618,465
3. 871 Larkana Pakistan618,408
4. 872 Malegaon India618,133
5. 873 West Palm Beach617,035
6. 874 Farrukhabad India615,831
7. 875 Bristol United Kingdom615,703
8. 876 Ambala India615,565
9. 877 Reynosa Mexico615,168

In the United States, 2025

1. 732 Columbus731,335
2. 764 Milwaukee701,928
3. 785 Fresno685,330
4. 817 St. Louis663,392
5. 873 West Palm Beach617,035
6. 898 El Paso605,731
7. 965 Norfolk567,473
8. 994 Tampa551,988
9. 1015 Salt Lake City542,449

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 West Palm Beach are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 West Palm Beach 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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