Salvador — UN urban centre
Salvador: 3,135,157 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #158 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8374; 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: -12.9367, -38.4514. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,226,073 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,532,775 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,806,846 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,109,313 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,383,801 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,593,460 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,725,038 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,854,158 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,002,379 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,126,006 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 3,135,157 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 3,131,204 | Projection |
| 2035 | 3,124,333 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,101,884 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,077,867 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,036,993 | Projection |
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