Ellesmere Port — UN urban centre
Ellesmere Port: 57,608 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,697 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2675; territory: United Kingdom (GBR). 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: 53.2748, -2.9184. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 53,838 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 55,047 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 55,201 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 55,524 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 55,221 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 55,028 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 55,147 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 55,935 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 56,761 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 56,820 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 57,608 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 58,012 | Projection |
| 2035 | 58,244 | Projection |
| 2040 | 58,274 | Projection |
| 2045 | 58,331 | Projection |
| 2050 | 58,211 | Projection |
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