Turku — UN urban centre
Turku: 107,319 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,756 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 84; territory: Finland (FIN). 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: 60.4499, 22.266. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 108,112 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 105,825 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 106,185 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 102,375 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 102,421 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 100,687 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 101,287 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 103,947 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 106,177 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 105,370 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 107,319 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 111,118 | Projection |
| 2035 | 111,018 | Projection |
| 2040 | 112,245 | Projection |
| 2045 | 111,976 | Projection |
| 2050 | 111,615 | Projection |
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