Jakarta — UN urban centre
Jakarta: 41,913,860 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5590; 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: -6.3275, 106.8248. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 11,696,369 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 14,204,709 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 16,848,703 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 19,744,195 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 22,421,273 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 25,591,966 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 28,880,592 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 32,595,795 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 36,098,681 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 39,069,168 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 41,913,860 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 44,639,909 | Projection |
| 2035 | 46,979,303 | Projection |
| 2040 | 49,018,960 | Projection |
| 2045 | 50,611,791 | Projection |
| 2050 | 51,784,216 | Projection |
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