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Demak — UN urban centre

80,563

Demak: 80,563 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,740 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7184; 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: -6.8927, 110.6424. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197583,173Estimate
198082,456Estimate
198580,099Estimate
199079,176Estimate
199579,658Estimate
200079,186Estimate
200583,477Estimate
201083,645Estimate
201582,726Estimate
202080,932Estimate
202580,563Estimate
203079,982Projection
203579,046Projection
204077,732Projection
204576,231Projection
205074,253Projection

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