Bhopal — UN urban centre
Bhopal: 2,487,205 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #199 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9213; 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: 23.2399, 77.4239. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 511,194 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 665,177 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 840,477 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,035,902 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,263,953 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,479,646 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,672,250 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,871,236 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,119,456 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,349,956 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,487,205 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,589,500 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,679,158 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,758,990 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,819,327 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,858,310 | Projection |
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