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Haldwani — UN urban centre

463,530

Haldwani: 463,530 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,201 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9127; 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: 29.2197, 79.5185. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975139,406Estimate
1980156,448Estimate
1985177,641Estimate
1990215,027Estimate
1995259,948Estimate
2000299,686Estimate
2005365,822Estimate
2010410,785Estimate
2015442,288Estimate
2020444,342Estimate
2025463,530Estimate
2030485,867Projection
2035504,525Projection
2040517,264Projection
2045528,546Projection
2050538,028Projection

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