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Berezniki — UN urban centre

99,877

Berezniki: 99,877 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,180 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6611; territory: Russia (RUS). 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: 59.4095, 56.8155. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975125,157Estimate
1980138,761Estimate
1985143,885Estimate
1990145,712Estimate
1995138,028Estimate
2000130,843Estimate
2005122,648Estimate
2010115,763Estimate
2015108,601Estimate
2020103,330Estimate
202599,877Estimate
203098,085Projection
203596,327Projection
204094,811Projection
204593,458Projection
205092,181Projection

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