Ludhiana — UN urban centre
Ludhiana: 2,245,106 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #224 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6504; 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: 30.9007, 75.8764. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 633,080 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 759,436 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 949,049 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,185,402 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,412,377 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,644,857 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,783,218 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,941,076 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,060,938 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,207,011 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,245,106 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,277,107 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,302,975 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,320,393 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,333,980 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,332,030 | Projection |
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