Pare-Pare — UN urban centre
Pare-Pare: 144,518 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,226 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8353; 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: -4.013, 119.634. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 58,366 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 67,175 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 82,341 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 101,133 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 109,923 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 117,818 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 124,240 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 131,699 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 144,518 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 150,597 | Projection |
| 2035 | 155,774 | Projection |
| 2040 | 161,822 | Projection |
| 2045 | 182,101 | Projection |
| 2050 | 185,207 | Projection |
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