Lucknow — UN urban centre
Lucknow: 5,052,444 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #82 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9717; 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: 26.8615, 80.9654. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,474,430 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,590,248 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,889,282 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,313,062 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,746,494 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,199,765 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,667,177 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 4,204,363 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 4,617,954 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 4,808,777 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 5,052,444 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 5,227,702 | Projection |
| 2035 | 5,392,874 | Projection |
| 2040 | 5,534,516 | Projection |
| 2045 | 5,627,077 | Projection |
| 2050 | 5,689,737 | Projection |
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