Rostock — UN urban centre
Rostock: 171,641 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,535 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5194; 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: 54.1163, 12.0998. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 130,127 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 177,760 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 178,222 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 177,482 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 185,745 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 180,602 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 179,214 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 174,722 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 174,248 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 170,213 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 171,641 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 169,515 | Projection |
| 2035 | 168,301 | Projection |
| 2040 | 167,073 | Projection |
| 2045 | 165,932 | Projection |
| 2050 | 164,505 | Projection |
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