Pangkalan Bun — UN urban centre
Pangkalan Bun: 124,941 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,904 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7663; 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: -2.6889, 111.6372. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 56,869 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 60,055 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 63,502 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 74,713 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 87,223 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 99,946 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 113,981 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 121,717 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 120,875 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 124,941 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 128,679 | Projection |
| 2035 | 131,858 | Projection |
| 2040 | 134,404 | Projection |
| 2045 | 136,269 | Projection |
| 2050 | 137,279 | Projection |
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