Ahmedabad — UN urban centre
Ahmedabad: 7,632,408 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #44 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6408; 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: 23.0208, 72.5972. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2,569,410 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 3,023,120 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 3,498,239 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 4,042,628 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 4,558,297 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 5,119,105 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 5,653,155 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 6,214,561 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 6,835,750 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 7,466,781 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 7,632,408 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 7,806,201 | Projection |
| 2035 | 7,961,640 | Projection |
| 2040 | 8,086,089 | Projection |
| 2045 | 8,185,077 | Projection |
| 2050 | 8,235,676 | Projection |
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