Puning — UN urban centre
Puning: 3,989,322 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #113 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11820; 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: 23.2618, 116.3952. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 753,685 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 911,306 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,110,111 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,384,680 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,938,526 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,950,095 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,221,981 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,455,639 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,656,446 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,852,791 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 3,989,322 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,118,998 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,199,724 | Projection |
| 2040 | 4,270,357 | Projection |
| 2045 | 4,284,433 | Projection |
| 2050 | 4,268,586 | Projection |
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