Coimbatore — UN urban centre
Coimbatore: 2,382,988 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #206 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9895; 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: 10.987, 76.9811. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,038,654 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,083,458 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,098,070 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,105,591 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,308,425 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,585,531 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,850,195 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,017,347 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,176,802 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,323,359 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,382,988 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,499,066 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,571,888 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,613,643 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,638,479 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,679,132 | Projection |
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