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Pavlodar — UN urban centre

279,799

Pavlodar: 279,799 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,077 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2200; territory: Kazakhstan (KAZ). 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: 52.2804, 76.9693. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975202,689Estimate
1980253,073Estimate
1985289,449Estimate
1990297,439Estimate
1995275,590Estimate
2000240,728Estimate
2005234,253Estimate
2010246,279Estimate
2015258,426Estimate
2020275,127Estimate
2025279,799Estimate
2030283,260Projection
2035284,572Projection
2040285,861Projection
2045288,500Projection
2050289,340Projection

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