Bareilly — UN urban centre
Bareilly: 1,635,214 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #298 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9183; 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: 28.3672, 79.4247. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 639,528 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 694,621 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 746,571 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 809,002 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 912,784 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,071,129 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,226,975 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,391,473 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,529,792 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,572,962 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,635,214 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,710,944 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,760,414 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,803,239 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,836,861 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,858,642 | Projection |
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