Tanjung Balai Karimun — UN urban centre
Tanjung Balai Karimun: 165,676 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,657 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4635; 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: 0.9997, 103.4195. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 50,588 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 62,856 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 72,729 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 89,340 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 101,702 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 109,958 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 117,468 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 132,564 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 152,693 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 165,676 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 181,152 | Projection |
| 2035 | 195,948 | Projection |
| 2040 | 207,804 | Projection |
| 2045 | 245,762 | Projection |
| 2050 | 256,670 | Projection |
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