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Salerno — UN urban centre

123,331

Salerno: 123,331 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,967 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4973; 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: 40.6753, 14.7839. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975114,912Estimate
1980121,473Estimate
1985125,535Estimate
1990128,765Estimate
1995130,373Estimate
2000129,304Estimate
2005127,375Estimate
2010125,336Estimate
2015124,426Estimate
2020125,106Estimate
2025123,331Estimate
2030120,651Projection
2035117,927Projection
2040115,052Projection
2045112,140Projection
2050108,709Projection

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