Toronto — UN urban centre
Toronto: 5,494,431 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #74 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2925; 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: 43.7195, -79.4736. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,976,141 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,254,508 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,517,598 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 3,103,487 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 3,434,429 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,793,456 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 4,252,595 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 4,657,336 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 4,983,632 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 5,243,724 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 5,494,431 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 5,722,033 | Projection |
| 2035 | 5,864,349 | Projection |
| 2040 | 5,984,020 | Projection |
| 2045 | 6,081,153 | Projection |
| 2050 | 6,168,899 | Projection |
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