Kanpur — UN urban centre
Kanpur: 4,329,973 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #97 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9603; 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: 26.4609, 80.3406. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2,052,684 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 2,327,788 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,611,538 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,914,064 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 3,342,324 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,843,118 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 4,088,881 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 4,285,711 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 4,385,562 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 4,235,166 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 4,329,973 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 4,424,695 | Projection |
| 2035 | 4,504,484 | Projection |
| 2040 | 4,571,232 | Projection |
| 2045 | 4,615,521 | Projection |
| 2050 | 4,637,879 | Projection |
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