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Deventer — UN urban centre

85,875

Deventer: 85,875 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,245 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3499; 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: 52.2586, 6.1757. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197553,542Estimate
198051,750Estimate
198550,530Estimate
199050,911Estimate
199554,045Estimate
200068,230Estimate
200580,201Estimate
201080,362Estimate
201580,383Estimate
202082,776Estimate
202585,875Estimate
203087,572Projection
203590,147Projection
204090,632Projection
204590,830Projection
205090,730Projection

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