Bishkek — UN urban centre
Bishkek: 1,343,048 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #378 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 987; territory: Kyrgyzstan (KGZ). 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: 42.8706, 74.5853. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 575,227 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 642,012 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 686,277 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 741,883 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 799,413 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 879,486 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 921,855 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 972,390 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,101,545 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,254,679 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,343,048 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,409,950 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,457,253 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,498,011 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,526,669 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,549,358 | Projection |
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