Xuzhou — UN urban centre
Xuzhou: 1,402,001 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #360 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10490; 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: 34.2603, 117.1639. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 925,359 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 929,637 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 985,107 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,118,543 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,359,927 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,628,469 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,633,313 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,592,963 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,506,129 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,430,346 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,402,001 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,363,894 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,331,602 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,292,165 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,254,089 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,199,566 | Projection |
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