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Santa Cruz Barillas — UN urban centre

84,759

Santa Cruz Barillas: 84,759 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,362 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1637; territory: Guatemala (GTM). 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: 15.8044, -91.3148. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200052,903Estimate
200558,212Estimate
201065,316Estimate
201578,417Estimate
202078,546Estimate
202584,759Estimate
203090,092Projection
203596,970Projection
2040102,118Projection
2045109,385Projection
2050113,702Projection

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