Tebing Tinggi — UN urban centre
Tebing Tinggi: 253,625 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,297 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2584; 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: 3.332, 99.1596. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 131,459 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 155,094 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 165,528 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 173,287 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 181,432 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 191,188 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 208,486 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 225,172 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 241,325 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 252,487 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 253,625 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 254,097 | Projection |
| 2035 | 253,655 | Projection |
| 2040 | 251,997 | Projection |
| 2045 | 249,948 | Projection |
| 2050 | 246,333 | Projection |
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