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Oakville — UN urban centre

190,294

Oakville: 190,294 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,159 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2864; territory: Canada (CAN). 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: 43.4534, -79.7152. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
201051,420Estimate
2015112,344Estimate
2020153,923Estimate
2025190,294Estimate
2030211,175Projection
2035221,171Projection
2040228,090Projection
2045231,306Projection
2050233,867Projection

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