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São Mateus — UN urban centre

65,705

São Mateus: 65,705 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,433 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8306; 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: -18.7216, -39.8669. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
201053,521Estimate
201556,151Estimate
202059,975Estimate
202565,705Estimate
203067,808Projection
203570,881Projection
204072,103Projection
204572,748Projection
205072,953Projection

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