Baku — UN urban centre
Baku: 1,977,897 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #250 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2348; territory: Azerbaijan (AZE). 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: 40.4119, 49.8694. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,211,279 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,413,013 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,532,374 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,561,674 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,572,997 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,618,702 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,640,767 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,815,597 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,886,843 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,932,871 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,977,897 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,020,633 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,068,882 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,115,882 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,136,215 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,142,353 | Projection |
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