Caserta — UN urban centre
Caserta: 252,391 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,306 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4762; 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: 41.0653, 14.3058. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 180,787 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 191,703 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 202,257 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 218,537 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 226,184 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 231,738 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 237,225 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 242,472 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 252,695 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 256,477 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 252,391 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 241,591 | Projection |
| 2035 | 236,060 | Projection |
| 2040 | 230,225 | Projection |
| 2045 | 219,146 | Projection |
| 2050 | 212,280 | Projection |
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