Ranchi — UN urban centre
Ranchi: 1,819,944 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #274 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11291; 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: 23.3665, 85.3237. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 483,007 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 658,731 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 728,828 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 798,551 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 968,394 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,109,599 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,242,048 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,382,796 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,513,223 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,713,191 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,819,944 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,907,909 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,982,612 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,050,415 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,099,048 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,161,121 | Projection |
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