New Delhi — UN urban centre
New Delhi: 30,222,405 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8364; 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: 28.6257, 77.2078. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 6,091,891 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 7,392,606 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 9,166,234 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 11,580,745 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 14,496,458 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 17,969,092 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 20,652,915 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 23,240,763 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 26,122,475 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 29,101,252 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 30,222,405 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 31,341,648 | Projection |
| 2035 | 32,226,619 | Projection |
| 2040 | 32,934,489 | Projection |
| 2045 | 33,526,301 | Projection |
| 2050 | 33,890,685 | Projection |
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