Caracas — UN urban centre
Caracas: 2,576,666 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #195 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3791; territory: Venezuela (VEN). 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: 10.4797, -66.8891. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2,436,007 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,655,530 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,771,614 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,842,618 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,888,492 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,918,756 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,980,654 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,054,675 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,048,346 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,618,737 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,576,666 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,585,384 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,597,836 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,599,909 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,589,692 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,566,670 | Projection |
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