Xiamen City — UN urban centre
Xiamen City: 1,788,492 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #278 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11994; 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: 24.4888, 118.1096. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 461,650 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 483,459 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 512,310 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 551,645 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 780,042 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,088,849 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,442,865 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,901,039 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,857,740 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,794,839 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,788,492 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,771,925 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,752,178 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,721,353 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,683,777 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,642,027 | Projection |
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