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Purwodadi — UN urban centre

162,293

Purwodadi: 162,293 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,727 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7275; 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: -7.0911, 110.912. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975204,114Estimate
1980197,066Estimate
1985180,300Estimate
1990162,677Estimate
1995178,348Estimate
2000184,743Estimate
2005182,562Estimate
2010173,345Estimate
2015169,158Estimate
2020163,029Estimate
2025162,293Estimate
2030161,131Projection
2035159,330Projection
2040156,765Projection
2045153,871Projection
2050147,120Projection

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