Agra — UN urban centre
Agra: 2,786,762 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #180 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8971; 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: 27.1882, 78.0013. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,109,446 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,232,483 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,380,906 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,545,426 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,733,428 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,933,080 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,157,944 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,361,366 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,536,931 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,697,243 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,786,762 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,871,268 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,949,493 | Projection |
| 2040 | 3,001,798 | Projection |
| 2045 | 3,047,657 | Projection |
| 2050 | 3,073,941 | Projection |
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