Port of Spain — UN urban centre
Port of Spain: 478,107 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,159 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 26; territory: Trinidad and Tobago (TTO). 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: 10.658, -61.4429. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 407,488 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 444,442 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 456,245 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 466,709 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 476,662 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 478,623 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 474,525 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 471,182 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 466,573 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 468,361 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 478,107 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 477,196 | Projection |
| 2035 | 473,681 | Projection |
| 2040 | 466,862 | Projection |
| 2045 | 456,237 | Projection |
| 2050 | 446,675 | Projection |
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