Birmingham — UN urban centre
Birmingham: 2,631,757 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #191 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3979; 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: 52.5046, -1.9604. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2,250,104 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,241,779 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,218,278 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,198,057 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,191,204 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,185,930 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,253,831 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,332,652 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,458,062 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,560,905 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,631,757 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,689,574 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,727,553 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,764,757 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,792,606 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,810,468 | Projection |
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