Tokyo — UN urban centre
Tokyo: 33,412,512 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6030; 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: 35.6662, 139.6558. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 24,281,618 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 25,912,201 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 27,209,324 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 28,588,983 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 29,222,295 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 30,302,560 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 31,352,582 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 32,558,339 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 33,103,603 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 33,698,874 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 33,412,512 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 33,044,211 | Projection |
| 2035 | 32,475,048 | Projection |
| 2040 | 31,885,167 | Projection |
| 2045 | 31,270,240 | Projection |
| 2050 | 30,657,618 | Projection |
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