Taiyuan — UN urban centre
Taiyuan: 4,005,816 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #112 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8609; 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: 37.8531, 112.548. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 758,288 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,001,255 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,251,756 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,554,935 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,987,044 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,450,370 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,754,795 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,104,671 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,489,990 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,934,864 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,005,816 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,040,211 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,051,916 | Projection |
| 2040 | 4,046,260 | Projection |
| 2045 | 4,027,458 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,979,034 | Projection |
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