San Pedro Sula — UN urban centre
San Pedro Sula: 1,299,457 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #397 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 492; territory: Honduras (HND). 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: 15.5186, -88.0064. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 183,567 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 223,456 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 252,244 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 297,040 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 405,508 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 606,154 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 743,777 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 829,721 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 960,342 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,225,307 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,299,457 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,369,107 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,437,755 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,497,756 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,545,609 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,609,557 | Projection |
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