Lyon — UN urban centre
Lyon: 1,202,985 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #429 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4068; 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: 45.7529, 4.8589. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 833,755 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 894,600 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 930,864 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 951,529 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 992,737 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,022,837 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,071,832 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,104,342 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,147,653 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,168,117 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,202,985 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,217,694 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,228,161 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,251,255 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,270,352 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,274,733 | Projection |
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