Ota — UN urban centre
Ota: 237,865 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,460 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5953; 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: 36.3008, 139.4113. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 253,289 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 267,998 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 275,016 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 301,485 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 291,841 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 279,124 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 274,283 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 271,111 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 246,226 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 240,229 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 237,865 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 234,887 | Projection |
| 2035 | 229,082 | Projection |
| 2040 | 224,750 | Projection |
| 2045 | 213,650 | Projection |
| 2050 | 204,644 | Projection |
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