Dublin — UN urban centre
Dublin: 1,142,650 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #453 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 377; territory: Ireland (IRL). 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: 53.3307, -6.2718. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 798,573 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 854,682 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 860,458 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 845,691 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 862,509 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 887,951 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 928,795 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 981,397 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,024,306 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,084,481 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,142,650 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,180,325 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,204,678 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,225,077 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,241,419 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,246,554 | Projection |
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