Sapporo — UN urban centre
Sapporo: 1,964,519 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #252 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 334; 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: 43.0694, 141.3695. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,518,528 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,704,911 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,796,075 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,896,312 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,996,567 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,996,382 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,036,370 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,986,396 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,987,158 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,998,761 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,964,519 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,925,198 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,887,546 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,849,733 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,808,929 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,772,609 | Projection |
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