+ Madrid and Barcelona. For Barcelona the figures refer to the province of Barcelona. For Madrid the figures refer to the provinces of Madrid + Guadalajara + Toledo.
Absolute population growth from 1990 to 2010:
- London: +1,763,500 (i.e. the London metro area, which follows the definition of Eurostat's London LUZ, had 1,763,500 more inhabitants in 2010 than in 1990)
- Madrid: +1,751,027
- Paris: +1,203,803
- Barcelona: +832,865
- Toulouse: +341,096
- Lyon: +339,322
- Bordeaux: +191,573
- Geneva (French + Swiss parts): +190,298
- Marseille: +189,715
- Birmingham: +184,300
- Nantes: +167,494
- West Yorkshire (Leeds-Bradford): +158,300
- Rennes: +156,061
- Montpellier: +148,399
- Manchester: +132,800
- Nottingham-Derby: +124,000
- Bristol: +108,900
- Nice: +108,112
- Leicester: +102,500
- Southampton-Portsmouth: +101,300
- Strasbourg: +99,107
- Edinburgh : +85,384
- Avignon: +80,291
- Cardiff: +79,000
- Grenoble: +76,478
- Toulon: +75,214
- Lille: +58,911
- Bournemouth-Poole: +52,800
- Belfast: +47,889
- Humberside: +47,700
- South Yorkshire (Sheffield-Doncaster): +44,100
- Rouen: +35,925
- Stoke-on-Trent: +14,100
- Teeside: -300
- Saint-Etienne: -8,722
- Douai-Lens: -17,356
- Tyne and Wear (Newcastle): -25,100
- Glasgow: -42,149
- Liverpool: -62,400
Relative population growth, yearly average from 1990 to 2010:
- Toulouse: +1.63% (i.e. in the 20 years between 1990 and 2010, the Toulouse metro area grew on average by +1.63% every year, which is quite significant over such a long period of 20 years, because it means that in 2010 the Toulouse metro area had 38% more inhabitants than in 1990)
- Montpellier: +1.58%
- Madrid: +1.38%
- Geneva (French + Swiss parts): +1.33%
- Rennes: +1.33%
- Nantes: +1.07%
- Bordeaux: +0.93%
SPAIN (whole country): +0.90%
- Avignon: +0.86%
- Lyon: +0.85%
- Barcelona: +0.83%
- London: +0.74%
- Strasbourg: +0.70%
- Toulon: +0.66%
- Leicester: +0.66%
- Grenoble: +0.61%
- Marseille: +0.59%
- Nice: +0.57%
- Bournemouth-Poole: +0.55%
- Edinburgh: +0.54%
- Bristol: +0.54%
FRANCE (whole country): +0.54%
- Southampton-Portsmouth: +0.54%
- Paris: +0.52%
UNITED KINGDOM (whole country): +0.46%
- Nottingham-Derby: +0.46%
- West Yorkshire (Leeds-Bradford): +0.37%
- Belfast: +0.33%
- Cardiff: +0.29%
- Rouen: +0.28%
- Humberside: +0.27%
- Lille: +0.26%
- Birmingham: +0.25%
- Manchester: +0.24%
- South Yorkshire (Sheffield-Doncaster): +0.17%
- Stoke-on-Trent: +0.12%
- Teeside: -0.00%
- Saint-Etienne: -0.08%
- Tyne and Wear (Newcastle): -0.11%
- Glasgow: -0.12%
- Douai-Lens: -0.16%
- Liverpool: -0.19%