Ningbo — UN urban centre
Ningbo: 3,094,833 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #161 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11956; 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: 29.9133, 121.5626. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 320,003 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 340,416 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 398,533 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 588,261 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,006,580 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,672,332 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,006,369 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,326,381 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,601,559 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,877,161 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 3,094,833 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 3,288,278 | Projection |
| 2035 | 3,477,092 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,691,267 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,780,687 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,847,804 | Projection |
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