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Santo Ângelo — UN urban centre

57,184

Santo Ângelo: 57,184 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,773 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3437; 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: -28.2977, -54.2599. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197551,251Estimate
198051,707Estimate
198555,433Estimate
199057,356Estimate
199559,912Estimate
200058,741Estimate
200559,000Estimate
201057,615Estimate
201556,236Estimate
202057,603Estimate
202557,184Estimate
203056,526Projection
203556,098Projection
204053,894Projection
204553,299Projection
205052,380Projection

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