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Hemel Hempstead — UN urban centre

92,330

Hemel Hempstead: 92,330 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,712 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6015; 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: 51.7544, -0.4643. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197567,956Estimate
198070,186Estimate
198571,237Estimate
199072,604Estimate
199576,116Estimate
200077,034Estimate
200578,231Estimate
201080,401Estimate
201582,747Estimate
202084,106Estimate
202592,330Estimate
203095,797Projection
203597,306Projection
2040103,781Projection
2045104,968Projection
2050105,835Projection

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