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Bayreuth — UN urban centre

58,928

Bayreuth: 58,928 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,489 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5253; 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: 49.9455, 11.5763. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197551,569Estimate
198051,344Estimate
198553,212Estimate
199056,106Estimate
199560,606Estimate
200060,516Estimate
200559,907Estimate
201058,038Estimate
201558,361Estimate
202058,529Estimate
202558,928Estimate
203058,106Projection
203557,759Projection
204057,406Projection
204557,096Projection
205056,688Projection

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