Gyanpur — UN urban centre
Gyanpur: 1,237,249 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #412 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10281; 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: 25.3136, 82.4139. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 203,810 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 176,532 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 153,934 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 217,033 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 317,361 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 374,491 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 436,811 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 572,276 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 901,363 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,102,445 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,237,249 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,375,249 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,563,379 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,657,605 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,745,263 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,846,032 | Projection |
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