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Juiz de Fora — UN urban centre

518,218

Juiz de Fora: 518,218 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,068 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7942; 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: -21.7543, -43.3603. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975166,978Estimate
1980214,765Estimate
1985239,586Estimate
1990266,465Estimate
1995367,663Estimate
2000405,946Estimate
2005431,933Estimate
2010462,568Estimate
2015492,293Estimate
2020512,037Estimate
2025518,218Estimate
2030522,232Projection
2035523,203Projection
2040521,564Projection
2045517,824Projection
2050510,948Projection

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