Surat — UN urban centre
Surat: 6,908,925 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #53 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7233; 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: 21.1776, 72.7789. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 955,482 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,269,576 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,599,264 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,925,493 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,464,190 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,293,268 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,988,297 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 4,756,733 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 5,625,340 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 6,594,406 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 6,908,925 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 7,218,848 | Projection |
| 2035 | 7,498,749 | Projection |
| 2040 | 7,727,193 | Projection |
| 2045 | 7,912,627 | Projection |
| 2050 | 8,048,617 | Projection |
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