Jalandhar — UN urban centre
Jalandhar: 1,192,763 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #433 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5907; 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: 31.3303, 75.571. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 686,832 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 739,682 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 787,746 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 846,161 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 931,885 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,019,562 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,077,853 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,123,888 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,160,808 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,173,555 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,192,763 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,210,519 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,226,908 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,248,735 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,262,142 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,264,740 | Projection |
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