Leicester — UN urban centre
Leicester: 530,264 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,046 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5469; 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: 52.6306, -1.1258. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 373,571 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 374,442 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 380,720 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 391,337 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 403,407 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 414,681 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 437,769 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 466,099 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 491,636 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 515,670 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 530,264 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 541,323 | Projection |
| 2035 | 554,458 | Projection |
| 2040 | 560,695 | Projection |
| 2045 | 568,693 | Projection |
| 2050 | 572,700 | Projection |
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