Babruysk — UN urban centre
Babruysk: 179,129 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,379 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1286; territory: Belarus (BLR). 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: 53.1509, 29.2102. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 236,487 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 228,573 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 228,984 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 226,567 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 226,283 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 223,464 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 214,017 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 209,105 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 199,594 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 184,275 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 179,129 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 176,358 | Projection |
| 2035 | 173,152 | Projection |
| 2040 | 170,101 | Projection |
| 2045 | 163,421 | Projection |
| 2050 | 159,962 | Projection |
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