Tuen Mun — UN urban centre
Tuen Mun: 1,053,083 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #489 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11540; territory: Hong Kong (HKG). 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: 22.4244, 113.9939. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 601,750 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 671,954 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 741,943 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 767,376 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 859,364 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 954,870 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 984,830 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,010,717 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,047,321 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,065,971 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,053,083 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,033,180 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,015,653 | Projection |
| 2040 | 980,874 | Projection |
| 2045 | 935,910 | Projection |
| 2050 | 877,958 | Projection |
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