Kottayam — UN urban centre
Kottayam: 1,043,314 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #490 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9857; 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: 9.6196, 76.5222. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 698,075 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 912,257 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 998,978 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,084,505 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,127,025 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,170,402 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,159,869 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,129,863 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,033,788 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 989,430 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,043,314 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,085,590 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,158,498 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,189,314 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,211,323 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,230,690 | Projection |
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