Wuhan — UN urban centre
Wuhan: 7,363,548 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #46 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10474; 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: 30.5661, 114.2968. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,665,771 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,983,631 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,341,145 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,747,486 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 3,968,929 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 5,637,243 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 6,197,659 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 6,720,499 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 7,072,984 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 7,558,701 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 7,363,548 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 7,131,478 | Projection |
| 2035 | 6,919,628 | Projection |
| 2040 | 6,688,317 | Projection |
| 2045 | 6,467,931 | Projection |
| 2050 | 6,157,042 | Projection |
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