Perth — UN urban centre
Perth: 1,079,374 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #474 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 330; 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: -31.9013, 115.7831. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 69,976 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 174,227 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 277,886 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 362,393 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 612,149 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 642,547 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 708,946 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 910,650 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 976,493 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 970,847 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,079,374 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,251,644 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,344,939 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,400,468 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,463,480 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,519,791 | Projection |
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