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Lubuk Pakam — UN urban centre

84,065

Lubuk Pakam: 84,065 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,414 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2210; 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: 3.5604, 98.874. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197553,617Estimate
198058,265Estimate
198561,339Estimate
199063,155Estimate
199565,755Estimate
200068,226Estimate
200573,556Estimate
201078,426Estimate
201582,983Estimate
202083,726Estimate
202584,065Estimate
203084,183Projection
203585,501Projection
204084,911Projection
204584,168Projection
205081,410Projection

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