Leipzig — UN urban centre
Leipzig: 542,313 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,017 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5391; 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: 51.3396, 12.3726. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 545,348 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 543,976 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 530,954 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 494,287 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 450,330 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 447,209 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 447,084 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 442,858 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 478,630 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 545,977 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 542,313 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 521,476 | Projection |
| 2035 | 511,362 | Projection |
| 2040 | 497,791 | Projection |
| 2045 | 487,498 | Projection |
| 2050 | 476,407 | Projection |
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