Xinning — UN urban centre
Xinning: 81,736 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,628 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10346; 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: 26.4426, 110.8514. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 89,679 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 92,669 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 94,449 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 96,440 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 96,128 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 91,152 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 89,220 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 88,136 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 88,057 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 82,785 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 81,736 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 80,230 | Projection |
| 2035 | 78,851 | Projection |
| 2040 | 77,134 | Projection |
| 2045 | 75,681 | Projection |
| 2050 | 71,855 | Projection |
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