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Caxias — UN urban centre

120,935

Caxias: 120,935 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,074 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7655; 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: -4.8657, -43.3552. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197562,855Estimate
198067,327Estimate
198575,124Estimate
199082,645Estimate
199590,535Estimate
200095,817Estimate
2005103,407Estimate
2010109,796Estimate
2015113,047Estimate
2020118,459Estimate
2025120,935Estimate
2030122,907Projection
2035124,183Projection
2040124,840Projection
2045125,168Projection
2050124,738Projection

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