El Paso — UN urban centre
El Paso: 605,731 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #898 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5303; 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: 31.8052, -106.3707. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 65,837 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 94,937 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 153,510 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 233,730 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 259,889 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 317,957 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 444,974 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 511,194 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 598,566 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 605,731 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 615,368 | Projection |
| 2035 | 626,100 | Projection |
| 2040 | 641,285 | Projection |
| 2045 | 652,643 | Projection |
| 2050 | 661,069 | Projection |
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