Diphu — UN urban centre
Diphu: 70,518 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,804 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12023; 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: 25.8485, 93.435. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 50,213 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 54,143 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 62,376 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 65,597 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 66,783 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 70,518 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 72,839 | Projection |
| 2035 | 76,362 | Projection |
| 2040 | 77,954 | Projection |
| 2045 | 79,152 | Projection |
| 2050 | 79,873 | Projection |
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