Rajkot — UN urban centre
Rajkot: 1,581,235 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #314 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4003; 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: 22.2865, 70.7935. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 566,864 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 648,704 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 734,787 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 828,632 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 977,929 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,124,864 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,250,436 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,359,120 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,463,058 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,548,346 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,581,235 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,613,778 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,638,776 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,655,275 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,669,561 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,675,334 | Projection |
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