Lille — UN urban centre
Lille: 893,282 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #578 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3549; 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: 50.6597, 3.1084. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 809,558 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 824,967 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 841,166 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 850,642 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 860,158 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 864,891 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 883,360 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 886,659 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 900,706 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 901,899 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 893,282 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 882,302 | Projection |
| 2035 | 873,680 | Projection |
| 2040 | 864,420 | Projection |
| 2045 | 856,522 | Projection |
| 2050 | 844,012 | Projection |
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