Sivakasi — UN urban centre
Sivakasi: 302,256 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,896 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10245; territory: India (IND). 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: 9.4568, 77.7981. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 174,895 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 183,392 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 197,020 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 210,300 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 227,159 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 242,265 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 255,247 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 265,609 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 283,526 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 292,970 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 302,256 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 314,664 | Projection |
| 2035 | 322,122 | Projection |
| 2040 | 327,607 | Projection |
| 2045 | 331,275 | Projection |
| 2050 | 332,949 | Projection |
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