Hajipur — UN urban centre
Hajipur: 9,941,510 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #34 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11027; 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: 25.981, 85.451. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 745,962 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 942,414 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,163,861 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,751,554 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,396,126 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,363,805 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 4,618,123 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 6,367,922 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 7,761,198 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 9,070,088 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 9,941,510 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 11,060,041 | Projection |
| 2035 | 11,925,723 | Projection |
| 2040 | 12,621,592 | Projection |
| 2045 | 13,217,264 | Projection |
| 2050 | 13,694,623 | Projection |
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