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Toruń — UN urban centre

166,921

Toruń: 166,921 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,626 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2476; territory: Poland (POL). 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: 53.0244, 18.6214. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975133,628Estimate
1980153,525Estimate
1985163,686Estimate
1990174,543Estimate
1995180,708Estimate
2000185,218Estimate
2005181,551Estimate
2010176,038Estimate
2015172,205Estimate
2020166,570Estimate
2025166,921Estimate
2030163,279Projection
2035161,146Projection
2040158,526Projection
2045155,982Projection
2050153,124Projection

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