Kozhikode — UN urban centre
Kozhikode: 6,123,872 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #66 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9587; 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: 11.2059, 75.8583. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 566,962 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 697,394 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,055,446 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,429,729 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,860,433 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,317,498 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,770,266 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,826,992 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 3,874,719 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 5,869,528 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 6,123,872 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 6,430,980 | Projection |
| 2035 | 6,738,070 | Projection |
| 2040 | 6,933,048 | Projection |
| 2045 | 7,039,212 | Projection |
| 2050 | 7,104,281 | Projection |
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