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Jacareí — UN urban centre

175,109

Jacareí: 175,109 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,455 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7563; 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: -23.3035, -45.9612. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198074,469Estimate
198590,622Estimate
1990108,878Estimate
1995132,345Estimate
2000141,852Estimate
2005149,954Estimate
2010161,531Estimate
2015169,587Estimate
2020172,915Estimate
2025175,109Estimate
2030176,571Projection
2035177,269Projection
2040177,083Projection
2045176,267Projection
2050174,384Projection

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