Vancouver — UN urban centre
Vancouver: 1,707,865 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #286 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 341; 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: 49.2459, -123.041. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 502,467 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 544,250 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 659,417 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 836,891 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,070,879 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,182,567 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,281,675 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,427,183 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,526,863 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,635,405 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,707,865 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,763,610 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,801,975 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,825,896 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,851,124 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,874,133 | Projection |
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