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Aylesbury — UN urban centre

72,162

Aylesbury: 72,162 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,622 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5648; 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: 51.8141, -0.8113. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197559,231Estimate
198061,120Estimate
198561,954Estimate
199063,045Estimate
199563,793Estimate
200064,544Estimate
200565,585Estimate
201067,414Estimate
201569,342Estimate
202070,356Estimate
202572,162Estimate
203075,026Projection
203575,973Projection
204076,657Projection
204577,260Projection
205077,627Projection

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