Medan — UN urban centre
Medan: 4,245,895 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #102 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1806; 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: 3.5952, 98.6593. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,695,924 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,315,884 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,639,172 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,960,206 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 3,167,484 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,393,066 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,593,217 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,858,186 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 4,084,019 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 4,231,148 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,245,895 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,259,713 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,248,858 | Projection |
| 2040 | 4,217,647 | Projection |
| 2045 | 4,173,883 | Projection |
| 2050 | 4,102,926 | Projection |
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