Naples — UN urban centre
Naples: 2,767,923 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #181 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4726; 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: 40.8615, 14.3092. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2,594,394 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,717,070 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,769,939 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,792,465 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,838,021 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,838,854 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,841,637 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,840,411 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,836,437 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,817,720 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,767,923 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,702,116 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,643,553 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,568,433 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,480,609 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,403,811 | Projection |
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