Hiroshima — UN urban centre
Hiroshima: 1,185,788 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #435 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3037; territory: Japan (JPN). 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: 34.4059, 132.451. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,243,183 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,249,936 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,272,846 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,295,345 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,296,728 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,288,263 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,266,891 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,264,215 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,247,163 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,220,903 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,185,788 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,146,146 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,102,961 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,069,046 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,036,311 | Projection |
| 2050 | 971,268 | Projection |
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