Changchun — UN urban centre
Changchun: 3,349,934 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #140 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9948; 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: 43.8757, 125.3014. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,869,766 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,089,060 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,353,631 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,727,761 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,852,750 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,967,619 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,070,098 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,165,988 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,245,990 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,398,938 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 3,349,934 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 3,280,635 | Projection |
| 2035 | 3,226,843 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,158,170 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,077,974 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,994,525 | Projection |
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