Paris — UN urban centre
Paris: 9,381,921 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #36 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2994; territory: France (FRA). 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: 48.8491, 2.3556. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7,423,859 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 7,492,841 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 7,737,189 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 8,058,139 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 8,223,842 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 8,385,156 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 8,759,570 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 9,032,030 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 9,271,626 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 9,346,461 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 9,381,921 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 9,375,275 | Projection |
| 2035 | 9,375,685 | Projection |
| 2040 | 9,370,756 | Projection |
| 2045 | 9,363,758 | Projection |
| 2050 | 9,326,092 | Projection |
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