Rome — UN urban centre
Rome: 2,376,474 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #207 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4156; 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: 41.8887, 12.514. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,938,676 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,008,418 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,140,036 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,245,202 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,269,842 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,212,793 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,224,237 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,253,771 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,297,338 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,373,578 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,376,474 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,362,001 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,344,487 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,324,001 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,301,657 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,268,656 | Projection |
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