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Imperatriz — UN urban centre

237,188

Imperatriz: 237,188 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,468 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5597; 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: -5.5169, -47.4746. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198092,426Estimate
1985131,271Estimate
1990183,908Estimate
1995204,766Estimate
2000207,363Estimate
2005215,322Estimate
2010224,155Estimate
2015227,332Estimate
2020226,527Estimate
2025237,188Estimate
2030248,595Projection
2035258,271Projection
2040264,341Projection
2045268,774Projection
2050271,580Projection

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