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Schaumburg — UN urban centre

218,625

Schaumburg: 218,625 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,707 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7711; 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: 42.0185, -88.1132. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975163,113Estimate
1980153,439Estimate
1985163,226Estimate
1990163,153Estimate
1995182,619Estimate
2000220,176Estimate
2005217,699Estimate
2010209,494Estimate
2015209,951Estimate
2020219,649Estimate
2025218,625Estimate
2030217,937Projection
2035214,492Projection
2040213,435Projection
2045212,424Projection
2050207,697Projection

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