San Miguel de Tucumán — UN urban centre
San Miguel de Tucumán: 959,565 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #541 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1458; territory: Argentina (ARG). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: -26.825, -65.2152. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 425,210 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 488,352 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 547,363 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 606,558 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 681,056 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 742,980 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 780,483 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 818,650 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 888,843 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 948,924 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 959,565 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 974,801 | Projection |
| 2035 | 987,100 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,001,629 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,013,522 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,016,902 | Projection |
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