Vadodara — UN urban centre
Vadodara: 2,270,298 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #219 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7337; 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: 22.3084, 73.1844. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 711,038 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 859,640 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,029,479 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,216,568 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,508,971 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,691,186 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,815,520 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,934,517 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,056,818 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,184,279 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,270,298 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,383,962 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,470,059 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,536,444 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,588,515 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,623,510 | Projection |
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