Maceió — UN urban centre
Maceió: 1,023,645 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #499 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8494; 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: -9.609, -35.7439. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 272,413 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 373,421 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 465,978 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 571,056 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 679,482 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 795,323 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 861,565 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 940,314 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 984,705 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,005,569 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,023,645 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,036,529 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,043,337 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,049,317 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,048,651 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,041,637 | Projection |
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