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62,496

Unna: 62,496 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,926 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2167; territory: Germany (DEU). 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: 51.5394, 7.6599. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197566,252Estimate
198064,845Estimate
198564,832Estimate
199065,747Estimate
199567,097Estimate
200064,886Estimate
200563,430Estimate
201060,547Estimate
201560,136Estimate
202062,176Estimate
202562,496Estimate
203061,523Projection
203560,742Projection
204059,956Projection
204557,712Projection
205056,876Projection

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