Gold Coast — UN urban centre
Gold Coast: 298,750 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,926 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2520; territory: Australia (AUS). 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: -28.0368, 153.4238. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 71,162 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 106,604 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 194,486 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 221,549 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 250,281 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 265,596 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 298,750 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 348,859 | Projection |
| 2035 | 367,480 | Projection |
| 2040 | 394,065 | Projection |
| 2045 | 469,666 | Projection |
| 2050 | 552,540 | Projection |
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