Asansol — UN urban centre
Asansol: 2,924,741 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #167 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11531; 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: 23.6979, 86.9114. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,487,425 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,634,616 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,792,253 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,992,353 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,186,140 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,401,314 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,539,816 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,671,481 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,777,163 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,849,862 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,924,741 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 3,022,941 | Projection |
| 2035 | 3,091,885 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,133,759 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,160,087 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,168,038 | Projection |
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