Suzhou — UN urban centre
Suzhou: 7,731,101 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #43 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11632; 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: 31.3814, 120.6235. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 930,446 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,037,478 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,328,160 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,804,713 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,665,005 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,671,581 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 4,258,791 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 4,863,627 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 6,124,237 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 7,615,260 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 7,731,101 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 7,784,349 | Projection |
| 2035 | 7,799,777 | Projection |
| 2040 | 7,834,417 | Projection |
| 2045 | 7,771,675 | Projection |
| 2050 | 7,639,262 | Projection |
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