Minsk — UN urban centre
Minsk: 1,950,680 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #254 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 704; 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: 53.8933, 27.5825. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,053,060 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,292,779 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,454,257 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,574,211 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,602,799 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,651,096 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,713,064 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,788,288 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,879,549 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,975,698 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,950,680 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,935,064 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,910,800 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,888,259 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,861,556 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,832,713 | Projection |
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