Vienna — UN urban centre
Vienna: 2,031,326 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #242 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1054; territory: Austria (AUT). 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: 48.2003, 16.3626. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,560,003 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,513,755 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,510,371 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,512,941 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,538,269 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,543,803 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,646,603 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,714,388 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,819,021 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,976,566 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,031,326 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,030,296 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,028,974 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,024,498 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,022,592 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,012,101 | Projection |
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