Jaipur — UN urban centre
Jaipur: 4,071,754 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #110 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8064; 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: 26.9129, 75.7866. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 951,048 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,160,849 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,436,555 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,720,312 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,093,555 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,547,058 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,930,285 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 3,299,127 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,655,649 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 3,945,814 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,071,754 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,194,043 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,292,171 | Projection |
| 2040 | 4,371,904 | Projection |
| 2045 | 4,440,986 | Projection |
| 2050 | 4,490,178 | Projection |
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