Milan — UN urban centre
Milan: 2,599,022 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #194 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1848; territory: Italy (ITA). 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: 45.5181, 9.1924. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2,544,708 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,587,656 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,582,565 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,545,093 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,524,906 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,494,845 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,501,573 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,524,662 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,554,806 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,598,570 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,599,022 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,580,417 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,557,603 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,531,502 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,494,085 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,453,272 | Projection |
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