Belém — UN urban centre
Belém: 2,180,454 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #233 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4497; 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: -1.3909, -48.4423. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 717,613 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 846,479 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,044,253 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,232,789 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,466,931 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,739,761 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,846,583 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,948,369 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,046,993 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,105,760 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,180,454 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,243,852 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,297,807 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,342,123 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,371,244 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,386,104 | Projection |
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