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Yuxi, 
China
631,209 people lived in Yuxi in 2025. It is the 857th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 150th largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Yuxi's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yuxi grew
Count 10 people in Yuxi in 1990 and the same count gives 77.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 606,133 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. 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: 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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Yuxi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yuxi in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yuxi is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of China in 2025, 2,082 in all, led by Shanghai, 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, Yuxi covered 87 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 29 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 16.4 times its size, and its people are 7.8 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 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Yuxi in 2025 — about 1 in 2,222.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 853 Huambo Angola634,669
- 854 Fangshan633,763
- 855 Al-Fashir Sudan633,077
- 856 Bordeaux France631,551
- 857 Yuxi631,209
- 858 Ajmer India631,176
- 859 Qujing630,828
- 860 Benghazi Libya630,479
- 861 Seeb Oman630,072
In China, 2025
- 846 Jiangyin637,502
- 849 Mianyang636,781
- 852 Liaoyang635,212
- 854 Fangshan633,763
- 857 Yuxi631,209
- 859 Qujing630,828
- 866 Pingxiang623,055
- 867 Xiashan622,080
- 870 Hengshui618,465
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.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Yuxi 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 Yuxi 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