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Passo Fundo — UN urban centre

174,114

Passo Fundo: 174,114 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,481 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4534; 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: -28.2605, -52.4054. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197556,508Estimate
198079,499Estimate
1985101,984Estimate
1990118,922Estimate
1995131,805Estimate
2000149,694Estimate
2005157,502Estimate
2010163,842Estimate
2015171,097Estimate
2020175,277Estimate
2025174,114Estimate
2030172,224Projection
2035170,995Projection
2040168,913Projection
2045167,110Projection
2050164,295Projection

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