Yogyakarta — UN urban centre
Yogyakarta: 2,793,747 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #179 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7035; 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: -7.7743, 110.4348. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,742,913 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,973,828 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,083,475 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,200,383 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,362,959 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,500,873 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,608,990 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,745,618 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,873,754 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,831,151 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,793,747 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,719,024 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,664,423 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,592,457 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,515,443 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,432,351 | Projection |
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