Quanzhou — UN urban centre
Quanzhou: 3,286,129 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #144 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12024; 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: 24.8491, 118.5449. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 819,476 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 980,874 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,116,978 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,430,988 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,944,356 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,783,273 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,030,563 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,182,148 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,267,784 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,308,983 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 3,286,129 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 3,253,806 | Projection |
| 2035 | 3,211,677 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,158,397 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,089,728 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,964,415 | Projection |
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