Taizhou — UN urban centre
Taizhou: 1,483,994 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #343 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12098; 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: 28.5993, 121.3994. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 115,438 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 134,421 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 149,282 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 232,658 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 605,784 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,244,959 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,341,823 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,408,713 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,429,691 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,454,259 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,483,994 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,496,011 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,495,852 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,489,283 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,476,875 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,454,153 | Projection |
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