Bogotá — UN urban centre
Bogotá: 10,624,315 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #31 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3883; territory: Colombia (COL). 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: 4.6438, -74.1123. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 3,389,750 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 3,844,780 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 4,360,229 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 4,922,725 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 5,579,035 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 6,340,840 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 7,125,041 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 7,987,913 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 8,934,193 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 9,935,155 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 10,624,315 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 11,195,101 | Projection |
| 2035 | 11,739,840 | Projection |
| 2040 | 12,075,379 | Projection |
| 2045 | 12,321,512 | Projection |
| 2050 | 12,478,015 | Projection |
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