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Walton-on-Thames — UN urban centre

205,663

Walton-on-Thames: 205,663 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,898 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5877; 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: 51.3504, -0.5016. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975152,349Estimate
1980158,820Estimate
1985161,128Estimate
1990164,257Estimate
1995168,315Estimate
2000171,442Estimate
2005176,148Estimate
2010184,767Estimate
2015195,015Estimate
2020199,362Estimate
2025205,663Estimate
2030217,199Projection
2035221,289Projection
2040226,115Projection
2045230,513Projection
2050234,159Projection

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