Auckland — UN urban centre
Auckland: 1,123,094 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #462 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1005; territory: New Zealand (NZL). 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: -36.9033, 174.7759. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 272,602 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 304,409 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 386,850 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 436,768 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 556,554 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 655,954 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 763,468 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 816,832 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 929,235 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,085,078 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,123,094 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,163,465 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,191,621 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,216,686 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,237,396 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,253,383 | Projection |
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