Daegu — UN urban centre
Daegu: 2,334,446 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #213 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2915; territory: South Korea (KOR). 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: 35.8578, 128.5941. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,509,252 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,748,149 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,044,841 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,360,218 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 2,423,938 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 2,467,924 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 2,488,451 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 2,453,119 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 2,427,435 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 2,376,882 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,334,446 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,279,043 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,220,721 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,144,919 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,066,362 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,968,877 | Projection |
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