Semarang — UN urban centre
Semarang: 2,679,349 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #186 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7063; 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: -7.0326, 110.4327. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,240,535 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,534,190 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,729,692 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,857,224 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,026,742 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,188,468 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,296,016 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,407,059 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,556,114 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,694,058 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,679,349 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,657,819 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,626,699 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,537,500 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,489,477 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,425,847 | Projection |
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