Port Said — UN urban centre
Port Said: 849,767 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #615 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7111; territory: Egypt (EGY). 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: 31.2571, 32.2846. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 283,078 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 326,170 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 405,390 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 457,620 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 493,970 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 537,446 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 588,148 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 645,191 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 703,552 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 818,680 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 849,767 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 883,123 | Projection |
| 2035 | 912,455 | Projection |
| 2040 | 943,634 | Projection |
| 2045 | 971,054 | Projection |
| 2050 | 991,154 | Projection |
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