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Thodupuzha — UN urban centre

169,038

Thodupuzha: 169,038 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,574 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9897; 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: 9.9003, 76.7174. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975188,820Estimate
1980213,034Estimate
1985229,058Estimate
1990242,255Estimate
1995259,053Estimate
2000268,479Estimate
2005256,760Estimate
2010231,863Estimate
2015206,198Estimate
2020158,774Estimate
2025169,038Estimate
2030175,168Projection
2035181,936Projection
2040189,017Projection
2045193,550Projection
2050195,473Projection

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