Tel Aviv — UN urban centre
Tel Aviv: 2,642,872 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #190 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 439; territory: Israel (ISR). 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: 32.0678, 34.8222. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 599,662 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 787,113 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 956,305 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,043,778 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,447,024 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,675,913 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,826,940 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,002,279 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,207,489 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,468,591 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,642,872 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,809,140 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,975,610 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,149,579 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,327,492 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,483,084 | Projection |
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