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Panevėžys — UN urban centre

81,901

Panevėžys: 81,901 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,608 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 559; territory: Lithuania (LTU). 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: 55.7328, 24.3534. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197587,833Estimate
1980104,313Estimate
1985114,736Estimate
1990123,057Estimate
1995117,162Estimate
2000117,162Estimate
2005105,804Estimate
201092,908Estimate
201584,793Estimate
202080,004Estimate
202581,901Estimate
203079,221Projection
203578,294Projection
204075,763Projection
204574,648Projection
205073,513Projection

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