Fukuoka — UN urban centre
Fukuoka: 2,225,078 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #226 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 884; 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: 33.5866, 130.4259. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,869,311 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,916,649 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,000,185 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,110,465 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,172,062 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,167,714 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,242,476 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,247,219 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,253,703 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,274,876 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,225,078 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,169,526 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,112,283 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,054,878 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,991,930 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,935,396 | Projection |
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