Marseille — UN urban centre
Marseille: 891,463 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #581 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4276; 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: 43.3054, 5.4023. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 700,860 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 765,620 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 791,158 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 796,114 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 810,972 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 827,183 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 857,129 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 873,779 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 882,682 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 879,530 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 891,463 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 950,264 | Projection |
| 2035 | 963,007 | Projection |
| 2040 | 970,416 | Projection |
| 2045 | 978,423 | Projection |
| 2050 | 981,662 | Projection |
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