Fort Lauderdale — UN urban centre
Fort Lauderdale: 1,368,027 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #370 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7380; 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: 26.2114, -80.2002. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 195,029 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 331,624 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 545,982 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 758,696 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 855,062 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 993,158 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,050,340 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,112,083 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,271,007 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,368,027 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,498,495 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,558,203 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,602,811 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,673,146 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,725,922 | Projection |
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