This statistic shows the ten biggest cities in Argentina in 2019. In 2019, approximately 15.17 million people lived in Buenos Aires, making it the biggest city in Argentina.

As of January 2025, the province of Buenos Aires registered the highest number of inhabitants, with over 17.8 million. Córdoba and Santa Fe followed far behind with 3.91 and 3.58 million, respectively. The city of Buenos Aires ranked as the third most populated metropolitan area of Latin America, only behind São Paulo and Mexico City.

Population in largest city in Argentina was reported at 15618288 in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Argentina - Population in largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on May of 2025.

Argentina AR: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data was reported at 36.918 % in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 36.789 % for 2023. Argentina AR: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data is updated yearly, averaging 38.673 % from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2024, with 65 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 45.060 % in 1960 and a record low of 36.395 % in 2019. Argentina AR: Population in Largest City: as % of Urban Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Argentina – Table AR.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.;United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.;Weighted average;

Population in the largest city (% of urban population) in Argentina was reported at 36.92 % in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Argentina - Population in the largest city - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

Argentina AR: Population in Largest City data was reported at 15,618,288.000 Person in 2024. This records an increase from the previous number of 15,490,415.000 Person for 2023. Argentina AR: Population in Largest City data is updated yearly, averaging 11,407,033.000 Person from Dec 1960 (Median) to 2024, with 65 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 15,618,288.000 Person in 2024 and a record low of 6,761,837.000 Person in 1960. Argentina AR: Population in Largest City data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Argentina – Table AR.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics. Population in largest city is the urban population living in the country's largest metropolitan area.;United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects.;;

Based on the more than 500 startup companies identified in Argentina, over half were located in Buenos Aires. The Argentine capital and its larger metropolitan area were home to 345 startup companies as of September 2024. Córdoba, Argentina's second most populated city, was the second favorite city to found a startup in Argentina, with 191 enterprises. The Argentine startup ecosystem In recent years, Argentina and Brazil concentrated over 80 percent of the startup ecosystem value in Latin America. Argentina alone accounted for 45 percent of the total. This South American nation's ecosystem was valued at 99 billion U.S. dollars that year, followed closely by Brazil, whose ecosystem's value stood at 91 billion dollars.In 2023, Buenos Aires topped the list of best cities for startups in Argentina, registering a total score of 8.53. That year, the country’s capital and Córdoba also appeared in the ranking of top cities for startups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Female entrepreneurship Female entrepreneurship has been on the rise in Latin America, pushing against a male-dominated environment in the business sector. It continues to encounter, however, remarkable obstacles. Argentina’s female entrepreneurial activity rate was remarkably distant from that of other Latin American countries, like Ecuador and Colombia, where it exceeded 30 percent. By contrast, even if the entrepreneurial activity rate among women in Argentina was not particularly high, it can be said that most females started their business because it was their choice, and not out of necessity.

Graph and download economic data for Geographical Outreach: Number of Branches in 3 Largest Cities, Excluding Headquarters, for Other Deposit Takers for Argentina (ARGFCBODDLNUM) from 2004 to 2015 about branches and Argentina.

This horizontal bar chart displays tweets by city using the aggregation sum in Argentina. The data is about companies.

This horizontal bar chart displays LinkedIn followers (followers) by city using the aggregation sum in Argentina. The data is about companies.

This horizontal bar chart displays agricultural land (km²) by capital city using the aggregation sum in Argentina. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

This horizontal bar chart displays health expenditure (% of GDP) by capital city using the aggregation average, weighted by gdp in Argentina. The data is filtered where the date is 2021. The data is about countries per year.

In 2022, the total population of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, had a population of about 3.12 million inhabitants, where 264,385 of them lived in the commune 13 (Núñez, Belgrano, and Colegiales), making it the most populated commune of the Argentinian capital. In the same year, the women represented almost 54 percent of the total population.

最大城市人口占城市总人口的百分比在12-01-2024达36.918%，相较于12-01-2023的36.789%有所增长。最大城市人口占城市总人口的百分比数据按年更新，12-01-1960至12-01-2024期间平均值为38.673%，共65份观测结果。该数据的历史最高值出现于12-01-1960，达45.060%，而历史最低值则出现于12-01-2019，为36.395%。CEIC提供的最大城市人口占城市总人口的百分比数据处于定期更新的状态，数据来源于World Bank，数据归类于全球数据库的阿根廷 – Table AR.World Bank.WDI: Population and Urbanization Statistics。

Abstract

Polluted air is a major health hazard in developing countries. Improvements in pollution monitoring and statistical techniques during the last several decades have steadily enhanced the ability to measure the health effects of air pollution. Current methods can detect significant increases in the incidence of cardiopulmonary and respiratory diseases, coughing, bronchitis, and lung cancer, as well as premature deaths from these diseases resulting from elevated concentrations of ambient Particulate Matter (Holgate 1999).

Scarce public resources have limited the monitoring of atmospheric particulate matter (PM) concentrations in developing countries, despite their large potential health effects. As a result, policymakers in many developing countries remain uncertain about the exposure of their residents to PM air pollution. The Global Model of Ambient Particulates (GMAPS) is an attempt to bridge this information gap through an econometrically estimated model for predicting PM levels in world cities (Pandey et al. forthcoming).

The estimation model is based on the latest available monitored PM pollution data from the World Health Organization, supplemented by data from other reliable sources. The current model can be used to estimate PM levels in urban residential areas and non-residential pollution hotspots. The results of the model are used to project annual average ambient PM concentrations for residential and non-residential areas in 3,226 world cities with populations larger than 100,000, as well as national capitals.

The study finds wide, systematic variations in ambient PM concentrations, both across world cities and over time. PM concentrations have risen at a slower rate than total emissions. Overall emission levels have been rising, especially for poorer countries, at nearly 6 percent per year. PM concentrations have not increased by as much, due to improvements in technology and structural shifts in the world economy. Additionally, within-country variations in PM levels can diverge greatly (by a factor of 5 in some cases), because of the direct and indirect effects of geo-climatic factors.

The primary determinants of PM concentrations are the scale and composition of economic activity, population, the energy mix, the strength of local pollution regulation, and geographic and atmospheric conditions that affect pollutant dispersion in the atmosphere.

Geographic coverage

The database covers the following countries: Afghanistan Albania Algeria Andorra Angola
Antigua and Barbuda Argentina
Armenia Australia
Austria Azerbaijan
Bahamas, The
Bahrain Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus Belgium Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Comoros Congo, Dem. Rep.
Congo, Rep. Costa Rica
Cote d'Ivoire
Croatia Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador Egypt, Arab Rep.
El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia
Faeroe Islands
Fiji
Finland France
Gabon
Gambia, The Georgia Germany Ghana
Greece
Grenada Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong, China
Hungary Iceland India
Indonesia
Iran, Islamic Rep.
Iraq
Ireland Israel
Italy
Jamaica Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Korea, Dem. Rep.
Korea, Rep. Kuwait
Kyrgyz Republic Lao PDR Latvia
Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macao, China
Macedonia, FYR
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Mauritania
Mexico
Moldova Mongolia
Morocco Mozambique
Myanmar Namibia Nepal
Netherlands Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico Qatar
Romania Russian Federation
Rwanda
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovak Republic Slovenia
Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
St. Kitts and Nevis St. Lucia
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland Syrian Arab Republic
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States
Uruguay Uzbekistan
Vanuatu Venezuela, RB
Vietnam Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Yemen, Rep. Yugoslavia, FR (Serbia/Montenegro)
Zambia
Zimbabwe

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Santiago, Chile's capital and largest city, was considered the smartest city in Latin America in 2019. That year, the city achieved an overall score of 59.45 points. Buenos Aires, the capital city of Argentina, ranked second, with 54.71 score points. Meanwhile, the Dominican Republic's Santo Domingo was the highest ranking Caribbean city, with a 40.39 score.

The population of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, grew rapidly between 1855 and 1947. Between 1887 and 1895, the city experienced its biggest growth rate per 1,000 inhabitants, with 55,4. It wasn't until 1960 that the city registered a decrease in population, -0.4 per 1,000 inhabitants, compared to 1947. In 2022, the Argentinian capital had a population of over 3.1 million people.

In 2023, the most frequent crimes in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina were robberies and thefts both with over 60,000 registered cases each. During a survey in 2024, crime ranked as the third main problem of Argentina according to public opinion, only surpassed by inflation and low wages. Prisoner population in Argentina Similar to the situation in Buenos Aires, the most prevalent crimes in Argentina were robberies, with approximately 362,566 cases reported in 2021, followed by thefts and threats. Given this prevalent crime environment, Argentina ranked as the 15th country with the largest number of prisoners worldwide in 2022. However, when population size is factored in, Argentina is ranked 19th among the Latin American countries, with 249 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants. Femicides in Argentina Over the past years, the number of femicides in Argentina has seen an increase, totaling 308 as of 2023, almost 60 cases more than the previous year. Notably, a correlation has been identified among these murders, with a significant portion of them occurring at the victim's home, accounting for 46 percent. Additionally, 39 percent of femicide victims had a relationship with the perpetrator, often being partners.

Based on land area, Brazil is the largest country in Latin America by far, with a total area of over 8.5 million square kilometers. Argentina follows with almost 2.8 million square kilometers. Cuba, whose surface area extends over almost 111,000 square kilometers, is the Caribbean country with the largest territory.

Brazil: a country with a lot to offer

Brazil's borders reach nearly half of the South American subcontinent, making it the fifth-largest country in the world and the third-largest country in the Western Hemisphere. Along with its landmass, Brazil also boasts the largest population and economy in the region. Although Brasília is the capital, the most significant portion of the country's population is concentrated along its coastline in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

South America: a region of extreme geographic variation

With the Andes mountain range in the West, the Amazon Rainforest in the East, the Equator in the North, and Cape Horn as the Southern-most continental tip, South America has some of the most diverse climatic and ecological terrains in the world. At its core, its biodiversity can largely be attributed to the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest, and the Amazon river, the world's largest river. However, with this incredible wealth of ecology also comes great responsibility. In the past decade, roughly 80,000 square kilometers of the Brazilian Amazon were destroyed. And, as of late 2019, there were at least 1,000 threatened species in Brazil alone.

The two countries with the greatest shares of the world's Jewish population are the United States and Israel. The United States had been a hub of Jewish immigration since the nineteenth century, as Jewish people sought to escape persecution in Europe by emigrating across the Atlantic. The Jewish population in the U.S. is largely congregated in major urban areas, such as New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, with the New York metropolitan area being the city with the second largest Jewish population worldwide, after Tel Aviv, Israel. Israel is the world's only officially Jewish state, having been founded in 1948 following the first Arab-Israeli War. While Jews had been emigrating to the holy lands since the nineteenth century, when they were controlled by the Ottoman Empire, immigration increased rapidly following the establishment of the state of Israel. Jewish communities in Eastern Europe who had survived the Holocaust saw Israel as a haven from persecution, while the state encouraged immigration from Jewish communities in other regions, notably the Middle East & North Africa. Smaller Jewish communities remain in Europe in countries such as France, the UK, and Germany, and in other countries which were hotspots for Jewish migration in the twentieth century, such as Canada and Argentina.