Lisbon — UN urban centre
Lisbon: 1,913,798 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #261 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 217; territory: Portugal (PRT). 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: 38.7584, -9.2131. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,278,418 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,501,517 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,540,507 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,545,566 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,629,942 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,669,925 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,707,651 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,740,610 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,787,605 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,861,574 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,913,798 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,933,603 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,945,805 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,957,111 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,960,557 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,959,218 | Projection |
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