Santa Cruz de la Sierra — UN urban centre
Santa Cruz de la Sierra: 1,980,432 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #249 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1354; territory: Bolivia (BOL). 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: -17.7955, -63.1635. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 161,987 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 263,299 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 379,353 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 535,763 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 780,787 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,036,388 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,243,074 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,414,505 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,589,524 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,820,215 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,980,432 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,161,003 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,318,686 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,487,083 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,596,106 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,751,765 | Projection |
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