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Barretos — UN urban centre

111,362

Barretos: 111,362 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,544 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6202; 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: -20.5549, -48.5664. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197551,597Estimate
198059,707Estimate
198570,600Estimate
199080,382Estimate
199590,578Estimate
200094,677Estimate
200597,167Estimate
2010101,088Estimate
2015104,724Estimate
2020110,071Estimate
2025111,362Estimate
2030112,186Projection
2035112,713Projection
2040112,679Projection
2045112,408Projection
2050111,457Projection

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