Tanjung Balai — UN urban centre
Tanjung Balai: 273,506 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,127 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2972; 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: 2.9658, 99.7977. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 129,731 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 133,167 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 152,729 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 185,154 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 207,823 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 223,934 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 235,529 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 246,485 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 260,714 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 269,200 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 273,506 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 277,093 | Projection |
| 2035 | 279,776 | Projection |
| 2040 | 281,119 | Projection |
| 2045 | 281,769 | Projection |
| 2050 | 280,652 | Projection |
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