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Pavia — UN urban centre

64,686

Pavia: 64,686 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,573 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1931; territory: Italy (ITA). 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: 45.19, 9.164. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197572,431Estimate
198071,984Estimate
198570,747Estimate
199068,837Estimate
199568,301Estimate
200066,274Estimate
200564,301Estimate
201062,399Estimate
201561,889Estimate
202064,676Estimate
202564,686Estimate
203064,223Projection
203563,651Projection
204062,997Projection
204562,206Projection
205061,126Projection

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