Warsaw — UN urban centre
Warsaw: 1,882,756 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #267 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3660; 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: 52.2243, 20.9997. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,401,512 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,549,731 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,581,173 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,616,768 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,637,375 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,704,499 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,707,198 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,736,209 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,794,610 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,861,241 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,882,756 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,854,235 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,842,590 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,825,380 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,806,865 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,783,228 | Projection |
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