Tai Po — UN urban centre
Tai Po: 276,367 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,100 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11578; 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: 22.4524, 114.1686. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 168,133 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 185,109 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 201,120 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 207,163 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 245,251 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 265,655 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 269,680 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 270,614 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 275,805 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 279,645 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 276,367 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 271,247 | Projection |
| 2035 | 264,443 | Projection |
| 2040 | 256,362 | Projection |
| 2045 | 245,254 | Projection |
| 2050 | 229,087 | Projection |
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