Tai'an — UN urban centre
Tai'an: 703,020 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #762 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10044; territory: China (CHN). 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: 36.1928, 117.1441. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 402,707 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 441,179 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 518,967 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 588,002 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 639,608 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 715,212 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 724,473 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 723,239 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 722,801 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 708,592 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 703,020 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 693,511 | Projection |
| 2035 | 682,825 | Projection |
| 2040 | 669,214 | Projection |
| 2045 | 651,630 | Projection |
| 2050 | 632,401 | Projection |
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