Palembang — UN urban centre
Palembang: 2,132,576 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #237 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5182; 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: -2.973, 104.756. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,093,222 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,234,999 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,392,212 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,597,623 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,779,721 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,969,735 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,953,547 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,923,547 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,021,620 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,128,707 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,132,576 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,134,007 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,129,663 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,115,115 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,100,684 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,069,866 | Projection |
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