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Eindhoven — UN urban centre

288,852

Eindhoven: 288,852 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,014 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2813; territory: Netherlands (NLD). 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: 51.4428, 5.4602. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975212,916Estimate
1980217,251Estimate
1985214,330Estimate
1990218,455Estimate
1995235,565Estimate
2000238,709Estimate
2005250,661Estimate
2010254,883Estimate
2015264,417Estimate
2020279,780Estimate
2025288,852Estimate
2030290,984Projection
2035291,340Projection
2040289,631Projection
2045287,228Projection
2050283,882Projection

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