Jabalpur — UN urban centre
Jabalpur: 1,582,131 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #313 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9851; 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: 23.1738, 79.9371. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 695,578 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 834,732 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 897,173 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 961,335 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,107,661 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,242,450 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,335,827 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,412,961 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,487,675 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,552,299 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,582,131 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,620,846 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,648,553 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,668,784 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,687,085 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,693,775 | Projection |
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