Luxor — UN urban centre
Luxor: 4,188,023 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #104 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7397; 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: 25.6736, 32.5858. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 92,191 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 92,070 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 93,382 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 93,118 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 91,181 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 221,190 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 358,340 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 852,813 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,949,800 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,582,454 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,188,023 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,775,521 | Projection |
| 2035 | 5,450,240 | Projection |
| 2040 | 6,140,787 | Projection |
| 2045 | 6,884,482 | Projection |
| 2050 | 7,569,654 | Projection |
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