Yucheng — UN urban centre
Yucheng: 112,762 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,470 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9814; 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: 36.9307, 116.639. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 105,536 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 106,681 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 110,321 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 115,666 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 116,189 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 107,952 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 113,353 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 117,641 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 118,060 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 113,808 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 112,762 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 111,084 | Projection |
| 2035 | 107,669 | Projection |
| 2040 | 103,805 | Projection |
| 2045 | 101,236 | Projection |
| 2050 | 97,960 | Projection |
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