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Great Yarmouth — UN urban centre

68,020

Great Yarmouth: 68,020 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,112 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6575; 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: 52.5901, 1.721. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198054,113Estimate
198555,022Estimate
199056,196Estimate
199556,990Estimate
200057,973Estimate
200559,439Estimate
201061,673Estimate
201563,893Estimate
202064,996Estimate
202568,020Estimate
203070,756Projection
203572,895Projection
204074,782Projection
204576,343Projection
205077,672Projection

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