Los Angeles — UN urban centre
Los Angeles: 12,740,420 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #27 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1725; territory: United States (USA). 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: 33.9842, -118.1167. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 7,717,837 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 8,205,671 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 9,268,829 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 10,244,444 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 10,701,394 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 11,195,626 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 11,410,739 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 11,715,021 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 12,106,181 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 12,491,491 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 12,740,420 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 13,069,762 | Projection |
| 2035 | 13,307,551 | Projection |
| 2040 | 13,510,919 | Projection |
| 2045 | 13,744,315 | Projection |
| 2050 | 13,862,284 | Projection |
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