Khulna — UN urban centre
Khulna: 1,074,134 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #475 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6006; territory: Bangladesh (BGD). 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: 22.8373, 89.5472. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 496,110 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 662,739 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 860,501 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,053,365 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,234,179 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,381,808 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,338,951 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,313,660 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,200,711 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,067,772 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,074,134 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,088,991 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,094,754 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,091,548 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,086,726 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,077,949 | Projection |
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