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Itabuna — UN urban centre

208,782

Itabuna: 208,782 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,855 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8313; 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: -14.794, -39.2755. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197590,515Estimate
1980118,233Estimate
1985145,718Estimate
1990166,846Estimate
1995177,138Estimate
2000185,362Estimate
2005188,956Estimate
2010191,815Estimate
2015202,513Estimate
2020208,081Estimate
2025208,782Estimate
2030208,610Projection
2035208,286Projection
2040206,924Projection
2045205,463Projection
2050202,759Projection

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