Lima — UN urban centre
Lima: 10,580,241 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #32 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1987; territory: Peru (PER). 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: -12.0446, -77.011. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 3,519,785 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 4,207,147 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 4,831,357 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 5,487,000 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 6,272,844 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 6,991,685 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 7,802,098 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 8,532,370 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 9,288,321 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 10,036,608 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 10,580,241 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 11,145,021 | Projection |
| 2035 | 11,565,535 | Projection |
| 2040 | 11,928,951 | Projection |
| 2045 | 12,183,355 | Projection |
| 2050 | 12,358,372 | Projection |
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