Pangkalan Brandan — UN urban centre
Pangkalan Brandan: 98,699 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,259 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1627; territory: Indonesia (IDN). 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: 4.017, 98.288. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 116,076 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 111,068 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 102,148 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 95,248 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 99,119 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 99,990 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 99,941 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 98,782 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 98,045 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 98,208 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 98,699 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 98,931 | Projection |
| 2035 | 98,795 | Projection |
| 2040 | 98,185 | Projection |
| 2045 | 97,426 | Projection |
| 2050 | 96,057 | Projection |
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