Leeds — UN urban centre
Leeds: 1,065,607 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #480 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4425; 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: 53.8018, -1.6407. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 857,505 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 770,280 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 796,641 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 837,298 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 852,823 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 869,825 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 898,659 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 952,237 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 985,674 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,041,993 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,065,607 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,086,815 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,097,467 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,102,832 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,107,736 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,109,261 | Projection |
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