Piatra Neamț — UN urban centre
Piatra Neamț: 69,638 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,919 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2097; territory: Romania (ROU). 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: 46.9315, 26.3747. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 54,171 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 68,012 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 80,748 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 94,197 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 94,634 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 89,489 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 82,643 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 74,068 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 69,812 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 70,547 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 69,638 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 68,489 | Projection |
| 2035 | 67,472 | Projection |
| 2040 | 66,382 | Projection |
| 2045 | 65,308 | Projection |
| 2050 | 64,219 | Projection |
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