Bandung — UN urban centre
Bandung: 8,909,104 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #40 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5991; 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: -6.9233, 107.6282. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 3,475,759 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 3,925,884 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 4,513,534 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 5,059,787 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 5,723,780 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 6,333,411 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 6,989,517 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 7,602,471 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 8,155,517 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 8,536,016 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 8,909,104 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 9,189,416 | Projection |
| 2035 | 9,423,235 | Projection |
| 2040 | 9,603,729 | Projection |
| 2045 | 9,718,292 | Projection |
| 2050 | 9,746,912 | Projection |
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