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Lund — UN urban centre

91,993

Lund: 91,993 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,737 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 681; territory: Sweden (SWE). 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: 55.7082, 13.1978. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198053,877Estimate
198555,521Estimate
199060,119Estimate
199564,110Estimate
200067,089Estimate
200570,542Estimate
201075,513Estimate
201583,642Estimate
202088,923Estimate
202591,993Estimate
203094,046Projection
203595,426Projection
204098,229Projection
204599,523Projection
2050100,662Projection

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