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Foz do Iguaçu — UN urban centre

204,845

Foz do Iguaçu: 204,845 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,913 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2803; territory: Brazil (BRA). 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: -25.5261, -54.5576. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198559,633Estimate
1990110,682Estimate
1995155,397Estimate
2000206,001Estimate
2005203,171Estimate
2010200,590Estimate
2015204,047Estimate
2020202,966Estimate
2025204,845Estimate
2030204,381Projection
2035203,852Projection
2040202,306Projection
2045201,018Projection
2050198,514Projection

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