Belgrade — UN urban centre
Belgrade: 1,121,410 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #463 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 556; territory: Serbia (SRB). 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: 44.7918, 20.45. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 820,623 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 889,093 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 908,709 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 946,883 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 981,655 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,024,118 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,050,570 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,071,074 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,087,562 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,135,373 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,121,410 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,105,930 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,087,155 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,069,120 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,049,066 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,028,781 | Projection |
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