Prague — UN urban centre
Prague: 1,197,765 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #430 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 542; territory: Czechia (CZE). 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: 50.0729, 14.4469. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 974,739 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,014,213 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,059,424 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,069,039 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,047,979 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,023,348 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,052,761 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,114,053 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,150,302 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,178,319 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,197,765 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,189,748 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,187,157 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,188,920 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,186,146 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,183,680 | Projection |
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